Abstract: As an antitumor drug which is excellent in terms of antitumor effect and safety, there is provided an antibody-drug conjugate in which an antitumor compound represented by the following formula is conjugated to an antibody via a linker having a structure represented by the following formula: -L1-L2-LP-NH—(CH2)n1-La-Lb-Lc- wherein the antibody is connected to the terminal of L1, and the antitumor compound is connected to the terminal of Lc with the nitrogen atom of the amino group at position 1 as a connecting position.

Abstract: An improved laser shock hardening method and apparatus which can eliminate spattering of a liquid and waving of the liquid surface upon laser irradiation, and can stably irradiate a workpiece with a laser beam. In a laser shock hardening method for carrying out surface processing of a workpiece in contact with a liquid by irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with a pulsed laser beam intermittently emitted from a laser irradiation device, the disclosed method provides a solid transparent to the wavelength of the laser, serving as an entrance window to the liquid surface; allowing the liquid to be present in the light path of the laser beam between the solid and the surface of the workpiece; and allowing the laser beam to enter through the solid and irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with the laser beam.

Abstract: There is provided an improved laser shock hardening method and apparatus which can eliminate spattering of a liquid and waving of the liquid surface upon laser irradiation, and can stably irradiate a workpiece with a laser beam. Thus, the present invention provides in a laser shock hardening method for carrying out surface processing of a workpiece in contact with a liquid by irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with a pulsed laser beam intermittently emitted from a laser irradiation device, the improvement comprising: providing a solid transparent to the wavelength of the laser, serving as an entrance window to the surface of the liquid; allowing the liquid to be present in the light path of the laser beam between the solid and the surface of the workpiece; and allowing the laser beam to enter through the solid and irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with the laser beam, thereby shock-hardening the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: There is provided an improved laser shock hardening method and apparatus which can eliminate spattering of a liquid and waving of the liquid surface upon laser irradiation, and can stably irradiate a workpiece with a laser beam. Thus, the present invention provides in a laser shock hardening method for carrying out surface processing of a workpiece in contact with a liquid by irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with a pulsed laser beam intermittently emitted from a laser irradiation device, the improvement comprising: providing a solid transparent to the wavelength of the laser, serving as an entrance window to the surface of the liquid; allowing the liquid to be present in the light path of the laser beam between the solid and the surface of the workpiece; and allowing the laser beam to enter through the solid and irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with the laser beam, thereby shock-hardening the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: There is provided an improved laser shock hardening method and apparatus which can eliminate spattering of a liquid and waving of the liquid surface upon laser irradiation, and can stably irradiate a workpiece with a laser beam. Thus, the present invention provides in a laser shock hardening method for carrying out surface processing of a workpiece in contact with a liquid by irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with a pulsed laser beam intermittently emitted from a laser irradiation device, the improvement comprising: providing a solid transparent to the wavelength of the laser, serving as an entrance window to the surface of the liquid; allowing the liquid to be present in the light path of the laser beam between the solid and the surface of the workpiece; and allowing the laser beam to enter through the solid and irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with the laser beam, thereby shock-hardening the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: There is provided an improved laser shock hardening method and apparatus which can eliminate spattering of a liquid and waving of the liquid surface upon laser irradiation, and can stably irradiate a workpiece with a laser beam. Thus, the present invention provides in a laser shock hardening method for carrying out surface processing of a workpiece in contact with a liquid by irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with a pulsed laser beam intermittently emitted from a laser irradiation device, the improvement comprising: providing a solid transparent to the wavelength of the laser, serving as an entrance window to the surface of the liquid; allowing the liquid to be present in the light path of the laser beam between the solid and the surface of the workpiece; and allowing the laser beam to enter through the solid and irradiating through the liquid the surface of the workpiece with the laser beam, thereby shock-hardening the surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous secondary battery having an improved charge and discharge cycle property and high discharge voltage, high energy density, high capacity and increased stability as well as an excellent high electric current atitude by using a lithium-containing transition metal oxide as a positive electrode material and at least one of the specfified composite oxides as a negative electrode material. Accordingly, the feature of the present invention consists in that the negative electrode material mainly consists of at least one member selected from the group consisting of amorphous chalcogen compounds and amorphous oxides containing at least three atoms selected from the group consisting of Group 13, 14, 15 and 2 atoms of Periodic Table.

Abstract: A beltline weather strip accommodated in a door panel for elastically contacting a door glass plate and for sliding the door glass plate comprises a base which is substantially parallel to the door glass plate with a cored bar embedded therein, a solid lip protruding from the upper door glass plate side surface of the base, and a hollow lip protruding from the lower door glass plate side surface of the base, wherein the upper side of the hollow lip is curved inwardly at the root end portion thereof and outwardly at the tip end portion thereof, forming an S-shaped curved upper side as a whole, and a ratio between the curvature radius Ra of the inwardly curved root end portion of the upper side of the hollow lip and the curvature radius Rb of the outwardly curved tip end portion thereof is set in the range of Ra: Rb=1:2.5 to 1:3.5.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer film unit containing an alkali processing element as one of elements constituting the film unit, wherein at least one of the elements contains at least one oligomer or polymer having surface activity. The film unit can contain a small amount of a photographically useful substance in a stable state. The film unit forms a clear image at a high rate of image formation.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer film unit and an image formation method using the same are disclosed, in which a light-sensitive material containing a specific sulfonamide compound of formula (I) and a specific tertiary amine compound of formula (II) is processed with an alkali processing composition containing a specific tertiary amine polymer. The film provides a transferred color image having a high density with reduced dependency on processing time, and suppresses changes in density of the resulting image with time after processing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following formula (I) and a silver halide color photographic material containing the same: formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, Y represents a group capable of substitution onto a benzene ring, Z represents a group capable of substitution onto a naphthalene ring, X represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-off group, m is an integer of 0 to 4, and n is an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for forming a color image which comprises developing a silver halide color photographic material having a layer containing a cyan coupler represented by formula (I) with a color developer containing a color-developing agent represented by formula (D) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or a cycloalkyl group, R.sup.2 represents an alkyl group, alkenyl group, or cycloalkyl group having 4 to 30 carbon atoms in total, R.sup.3 represents an aryl group, and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon a coupling reaction, with a color developer containing a color-developing agent represented by the following formula (D): ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a methyl group, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 each represent a methyl group or an ethyl group, L represents a methylene group or an ethylene group, and n is 1 or 2.

Abstract: The invention discloses an improved method for processing a silver halide color photographic material wherein said material is imagewise exposed and then processed. The improvement comprises the use of a particular naphthol amido coupler together with a bleaching bath containing (diaminopropanetetraacetatoiron) (III) complex salt at a particular pH.

Abstract: A silver halide emulsion manufactured by performing reduction sensitization and addition of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulas [I], [II], and [III] during the silver halide grain formation in a process of manufacturing silver halide emulsions:R--SO.sub.2 S--M [I]R--SO.sub.2 S-R.sup.1 [II]RSO.sub.2 S--L.sub.m --SSO.sub.2 --R.sup.2 [III]wherein R, R.sup.1, and R.sup.2 can be the same or different and represent an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group, M represents a cation, L represents a divalent bonding group, m represents 0 or 1, compounds represented by formulas [I] to [III] can be polymers containing, as a repeating unit, divalent groups derived from compounds represented by formulas [I] to [III], and, if possible, R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and L can be bonded with each other to form a ring.

Abstract: A photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one electrically conductive layer, said conductive layer comprising carbon black having a dibutyl phthalate absorption capability of at least 80 cc/100 g and a hydrophilic binder.

Abstract: In a photographic element amenable to heat development or mobile dye heat transfer, an electroconductive layer is formed from a composition containing an electroconductive substance, typically carbon black, a hydrophilic binder, typically gelatin, and a water-insoluble compound having a melting point of up to 120.degree. C. and a boiling point of at least 175.degree. C., for example, trinonyl phosphate, such that the conductive layer undergoes a minimized change in electric resistance when folded.

Abstract: In a photographic element amenable to heat development or mobile dye heat transfer, an electroconductive layer is formed from a composition containing an electroconductive substance, typically carbon black and a high molecular weight compound having a glass transition temperature of not higher than 40.degree. C. at a relative humidity of 20% or a melting point of not higher than 180.degree. C., for example, polyethylene glycol, such that the conductive layer undergoes a minimized change in electric resistance when folded.

Abstract: A method for forming an image comprising heating in the presence of at least one of a base and a base generating agent, a heat-developable color light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least: (1) a light-sensitive silver halide, (2) a coupler capable of coupling with an oxidation product of a developing agent, (3) a hydrophilic binder, and (4) at least one compound represented by formula (Z) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, a substituted amino group, an alkoxy group, an acylamino group, an alkylsulfonylamino group, an arylsulfonylamino group, an aryl group, a carbamoyl group, a substituted carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, a substituted sulfamoyl group, an acyl group, an acyloxy group, or an alkoxycarbonyl group, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, or R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: A method for forming an image comprising heating a light-sensitive element in the presence of water and at least one of a base and a base precursor after or simultaneously with imagewise exposure to light thereof, said light-sensitive element comprising a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a binder, and a dye providing substance which forms or releases a diffusible dye upon heating, and transferring said diffusible dye thus formed or released to a dye fixing layer of a dye fixing element, wherein at least one of said light-sensitive element and said dye fixing element contains an amphoteric surface active agent.