Abstract: An electrically conductive resin composition of a polyamide type, characterized in that, (A) 95 to 40% by mass of polyamide resin, (B) 5 to 30% by mass of electrically conductive carbon black, (C) 10 to 40% by mass of an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a reactive functional group which is able to react with a terminal group of the polyamide resin and/or an amide group of the main chain and (D) 1 to 10% by mass of a high-density polyethylene resin are compounded; the polyamide resin (A) forms a continuous phase; the ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (C) in particles having an average particle diameter of not more than 2 ?m is present by being dispersed in the continuous phase of the polyamide resin (A); and not less than 80% by mass of the electrically conductive carbon black (B) is present by being dispersed in the polyamide resin phase (A) which is a continuous phase, as well as a cap for fuel tank comprising it.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recoding medium capable of decreasing exchange coupling between crystal grains while suppressing increase in the crystal grain size of the magnetic recording layer. According to one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recoding medium is formed by stacking a seed layer, an intermediate layer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protecting layer all above a substrate. The magnetic recording layer has a granular structure constituted of a plurality of columnar grains comprising a CoCrPt alloy and a grain boundary containing an oxide.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes an intermediate film formed of a plurality of layers between a soft magnetic film and a perpendicular magnetization film. The intermediate film includes at least two layers, i.e., an oxygen-containing layer, or a nonmetallic element-containing layer containing nitrogen, silicon or carbon, and a metallic layer formed on a surface side of the oxygen-containing layer or the nonmetallic element-containing layer. The metallic layer includes a plurality of isolated island-shaped structures. Crystal grains of the perpendicular magnetization film are formed so as to correspond to the isolated island-shaped structures. As a result, a high recording density is obtained.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording media having excellent resolution, signal to noise ratio (S/N), and a small adjacent track erasure. According to one embodiment, underlayers for controlling the orientation and segregation of a magnetic layer, a magnetic layer including an oxide and an alloy of magnetic materials mainly composed of Co, Cr, and Pt, and a ferromagnetic-metal layer which does not contain oxygen, are formed over a substrate. The magnetic layer has at least two layers including ferromagnetic grains and oxides, a first magnetic layer, which is the part of the magnetic layer closer to the substrate, has grain boundaries mainly composed of Cr oxide and at least one oxide selected from Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta, and grain boundaries of a second magnetic layer at the ferromagnetic-metal layer side includes at least one oxide selected from Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta in which Cr oxide is less than the first magnetic layer.

Abstract: A composite material composition comprising 50 to 95% by weight of a micro body of an inorganic compound such as calcium carbonate, 0.1 to 30% by weight of a maleic anhydride-modified ethylene-butene copolymer rubber, and 1 to 48% by weight of a polypropylene resin. In addition, a molded article formed by molding the composite material composition.

Abstract: An automotive exterior resin part which is a molded article made of a long glass fiber reinforced polycarbonate resin/styrene-based resin, has been molded by injection molding, has a projected area of 200 cm2 or above and allows coating, plating or deposition, wherein the content of the glass fibers in the molded article is 25 to 50% by weight and the weight-average fiber length thereof is 0.5 to 2.0 mm, the centerline average surface roughnesses (Ra) over all faces to be subjected to coating, plating or deposition is 0.8 m or below and the maximum coefficient of linear expansion at 30 to 80° C. is 5×l0?5 or below.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that not only attains the magnetic isolation of crystal grains in a magnetic recording layer from one another in a region of the medium in which the thickness of an intermediate layer is equal to or smaller than about 20 nm but also exhibits excellent crystallographic texture and that exhibits small medium noise, excellent thermal stability, and high write-ability. In one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium has at least a soft-magnetic underlayer, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, a third intermediate layer, and a magnetic recording layer successively formed on a substrate.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium that not only attains the magnetic isolation of crystal grains in a magnetic recording layer from one another in a region of the medium in which the thickness of an intermediate layer is equal to or smaller than about 20 nm but also exhibits excellent crystallographic texture and that exhibits small medium noise, excellent thermal stability, and high write-ability. In one embodiment, a perpendicular magnetic recording medium has at least a soft-magnetic underlayer, a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer, a third intermediate layer, and a magnetic recording layer successively formed on a substrate.

Abstract: The polylactic acid based resin molded article is a molded article formed from a polylactic acid based resin composition comprising a polylactic acid based resin (A), a polypropylene (B) having a crystallinity of 20% by weight or less and a modified ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (C1) or a modified polyolefin (C2), wherein a treatment for accelerating crystallization of the polylactic acid based resin (A) is applied thereto. In the polylactic acid based resin composition, the polypropylene (B) having a crystallinity of 20% by weight or less is blended in an amount of from 10 to 90 parts by weight based on 90 to 10 parts by weight of the polylactic acid based resin (A). In addition, the modified ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (C1) or the modified polyolefin (C2) is blended in an amount of from 1 to 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight in total of the polylactic acid based resin (A) and the polypropylene (B) having a crystallinity of 20% by weight or less.

Abstract: An electrically conductive resin composition of a polyamide type, characterized in that, (A) 95 to 40% by mass of polyamide resin, (B) 5 to 30% by mass of electrically conductive carbon black, (C) 10 to 40% by mass of an ethylene-?-olefin copolymer having a reactive functional group which is able to react with a terminal group of the polyamide resin and/or an amide group of the main chain and (D) 1 to 10% by mass of a high-density polyethylene resin are compounded; the polyamide resin (A) forms a continuous phase; the ethylene-?-olefin copolymer (C) in particles having an average particle diameter of not more than 2 ?m is present by being dispersed in the continuous phase of the polyamide resin (A); and not less than 80% by mass of the electrically conductive carbon black (B) is present by being dispersed in the polyamide resin phase (A) which is a continuous phase, as well as a cap for fuel tank comprising it.

Abstract: A low temperature zone forming system by convection type thermal stratification in which the low temperature zone separated from polluted outside air is formed on a movable or fixed table for handling commodities such as marine products while maintaining freshness thereof during the period from carrying-in in the whole sale market, during selling by auction, until shipment of the commodities from the market, comprising an upward-open case body (30) mounted on a chassis (30a), a separate brine chilling unit (30b), and a brine piping (30c), the upward-open case body (30) further comprising a roller conveyer (35) installed in the center part of the floor of the case body (30), cooling flat plates each of which is installed adjacent to the roller conveyer (35), and cooling flat plates are installed on the inside faces of both laterally longitudinal side walls.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention achieve a higher recording than that of the prior art by using a perpendicular magnetic recording medium showing good recording reproduction characteristics in combination with a shielded pole head. A perpendicular magnetic recording medium and a shielded pole head are used. The shielded pole head comprises a single pole type writer having a main pole and an auxiliary pole, and a magnetic shield is provided via a non-magnetic gap layer so as to cover at least the down-track direction of trailing side of the main pole. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium has two recording layers. The first recording layer comprises ferromagnetic crystal grains having Co as principal component and containing at least Cr and Pt, and grain boundaries containing an oxide. The second recording layer comprises an alloy having Co as principal component, containing at least Cr, and not containing an oxide.

Abstract: In an elevator apparatus, a main rope suspending a car and a balance weight is looped around a traction sheave and a driven sheave of a traction machine. A driving-side speed detecting portion for detecting rotational speed of the traction sheave and a driven-side speed detecting portion for detecting rotational speed of the driven sheave are electrically connected to an operation control device. The operation control device includes a determination portion determining presence or absence of an abnormality in an elevator by calculating speed difference between rotational speeds of the traction sheave and the driven sheave and comparing the speed difference to a fixed reference value, set in advance, and a control portion for controlling the operation of the elevator based on information from the determination portion.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, a shielded pole writer and a perpendicular magnetic recording medium suitable thereto are combined to provide high medium SNR and excellent OW characteristic simultaneously. A perpendicular magnetic recording medium of a magnetic storage apparatus mounting a shielded pole writer, including a perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a recording layer of a three layered structure is used. A first recording layer has a granular structure consisting of grain boundaries containing an oxide and columnar grains comprising a CoCrPt alloy, in which a second recording layer and a third recording layer formed thereabove comprise Co as a main ingredient, contain Cr and do not contain an oxide, and the Cr concentration in the second recording layer is lower than the Cr concentration in the third recording layer.

Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the invention realize a perpendicular magnetic record medium with a high media S/N and excellent corrosion resistance. In a perpendicular magnetic record medium in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention prepared by forming an adhesion layer, an underlayer, a seed layer, an intermediate layer, and a recording layer sequentially on a substrate, the seed layer is specified to have a laminated structure consisting of a first seed layer and a second seed layer. The first seed layer consists of an amorphous alloy containing Cr and the second seed layer consists of an amorphous alloy predominantly composed of Ni with an fcc structure.

Abstract: A crystalline biodegradable resin composition obtained by annealing a composition comprising an aliphatic polyester and a modified elastomer.

Abstract: A studless tire which is provided in the tread portion with one or more circumferential portions provided with V-shaped sipes, the total width of the one or more circumferential portions is in a range of from 10 to 25% of the tread width, each V-shaped sipe is composed of two parts extending from its vertex located in a central region of the circumferential portion, and the V-shaped sipes in each circumferential portion are oriented towards the same direction and arranged at intervals in the tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: Disclosed are a perpendicular magnetic recording medium with lower medium noise, insusceptible to thermal fluctuation and high recording resolution and a method of manufacturing it. As the step of forming a metal layer at the time of forming a recording layer on a non-magnetic substrate via a plurality of underlayers and the step of forming an oxide layer with an average thickness of 0.2 nm or less are repeated, the crystal grains are magnetically isolated without disturbing the orientation of the crystal grain of the recording layer of the perpendicular magnetic recording medium or without degrading the magnetic characteristic of the crystal grain of the recording layer.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is manufactured having excellent thermal stability and recording performances across the entire disk surface. In one embodiment, the recording layer includes at least two layers deposited by using a reactive sputtering method under an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a deposition rate larger than the second recording layer which is formed on the first recording layer while depositing the first recording layer on the intermediate layer.

Abstract: In a granular magnetic recording layer of a perpendicular magnetic recording medium, media noises are reduced by separating adequately magnetic crystal grains and non-magnetic grain boundary and decreasing magnetic exchange interactions among the magnetic crystal grains without causing damage to magnetic anisotropy of the magnetic crystal grains. In one embodiment, the perpendicular magnetic recording medium, in which crystal alloy grains containing Co, Pt, and Cr, and non-magnetic grain boundary containing Si and O is included; the ratio of the number of O atom to that of Si atom in the magnetic recording layer is between about 2.5 and 5; the Si atomic composition in the magnetic recording layer is between about 3 and 6 atomic %; and the O atomic composition in the magnetic recording layer is between about 12 and 20 atomic %, is used. The in-plane distribution of perpendicular coercivity at any points of the medium of the magnetic recording layer is made at most about ±10% of an average value.