Abstract: A fluororesin composition containing a melt moldable fluororesin and a silica, wherein the fluororesin has 25 or more carbonyl group-containing functional groups per 106 main-chain carbon atoms; the silica is a spherical silica; and the fluororesin composition has a linear expansion coefficient of 100 ppm/° C. or lower. Also disclosed is a fluororesin sheet including the fluororesin composition, a laminate including a copper foil layer and a layer including the fluororesin composition and a substrate for circuits including a copper foil layer and a layer including the fluororesin composition.

Abstract: A fan includes a first blower and a second blower each having an impeller. The first blower includes a first motor and a first motor drive controller to control driving of the first motor and communicate with the second blower. The second blower includes a second motor and a second motor drive controller to control driving of the second motor and communicate with the first blower. The first motor drive controller controls the driving of the first motor based on a result of communication with the second blower.

Abstract: A signal forwarding system includes: a plurality of signal forwarding devices forming a plurality of communication routes between a slave station and a master station; and a route control device that determines a communication route, wherein the route control device includes at least: a communication route calculation unit that calculates a communication route in response to a route switching request; and a forward destination setting instruction unit that outputs forward destination setting information based on the communication route, the signal forwarding devices include at least: a forward destination setting instruction acquisition unit that acquires the forward destination setting information; a forward destination set unit that changes a forward destination based on the forward destination setting information; and a forward unit that outputs input traffic based on the forward destination, and any of the route control device and the signal forwarding devices includes: a traffic monitor unit; a non-signa

Abstract: A buffer unit including a plurality of buffers, a sorting unit configured to sort an input signal to any of the plurality of buffers based on header information, a rate calculation unit configured to calculate a rate at which the input signal is read from each of the plurality of buffers based on burst information of the input signal, an adjustment unit configured to adjust a rate at which the input signal is read from each of the plurality of buffers based on the rate calculated by the rate calculation unit, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the signal read from each of the plurality of buffers are provided.

Abstract: With branched epoxy(meth)acrylate which comprises a phenyl skeleton serving as a stiff molecular skeleton, and which comprises in the molecular skeleton a number of branched structures capable of forming a coating structure at a high crosslinking density after ultraviolet curing, it becomes possible to design the coating hardness to be high even if the content of an acryloyl group is designed to be low to effect less crosslinking reaction induced by ultraviolet curing, and it becomes possible to relax distortions inside a cured film due to cure shrinkage which occurs at the time of ultraviolet curing. As a result, there can be realized an ultraviolet-curable composition for an optical disk which has a high elastic modulus and is less tilted at the time of curing even if the coating hardness is designed to be high.

Abstract: A radiation-curable resin composition for shape-replication of the present invention includes a polyester resin (R) whose number average molecular weight (Mn) is 1,000 to 8,000; and a polymerizable vinyl compound (V), wherein a temperature (T4), at which a complex viscosity (?*) of components excluding any solvent at a frequency of 1 Hz is 1×104 dPa·s, is 30° C. or higher, and a temperature (T6), at which a complex viscosity (?*) at a frequency of 1 Hz is 1×106 dPa·s, is 100° C. or lower.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an aqueous dispersion of thermoplastic resin microparticles containing considerably less residual solvent remaining in resin particles, and a toner for electrophotography containing considerably less residual solvent. A self-water-dispersible thermoplastic resin is swollen using an organic solvent having a boiling point lower than 100° C., which does not dissolve but can swell the self-water-dispersible thermoplastic resin, to produce a swollen material and the resulting swollen material is dispersed into an aqueous medium in the form of microparticles to produce an initial aqueous dispersion, and then the organic solvent is removed from the initial aqueous dispersion to prepare a dispersion. A toner for electrophotography contains microparticles obtained by separating microparticles of the self-water-dispersible thermoplastic resin from the aqueous dispersion of thermoplastic resin microparticles and drying the microparticles.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a system that ensures safety when an airframe makes a sudden and sharp vertical movement, the system operating automatically to restrain movement of a service cart in a vertical direction such that the workload of a cabin attendant is not increased and there is no need for structural design modifications of the airframe. The safety device for a service cart of the present invention is designed to prevent the cart from floating upward by engaging a part of the cart with a fitting on the passenger seat, and comprises a sensor constituted by a combination of an inertial member and a spring to detect a sudden vertical motion of the airframe and a mechanism which causes plates to protrude from both the left and right sides of the cart using a detection signal of the sensor as a trigger. The protruding plates are then engaged.

Abstract: A toner for electrophotography comprises: a coloring agent and a binding resin comprising a polyester resin constituted of cyclohexanedimethanol as an essential polyol component, wherein the toner has, at 110° C., a storage elastic modulus of 3×104 Pa or less and a loss elastic modulus of 6×104 Pa or less, and, at 150° C., a storage elastic modulus of 1×10 Pa or more and a loss elastic modulus of 1×102 Pa or more.

Abstract: An automatic stroke adjustment device for a brake actuator having clutch rings (240, 340, 440, 540, 546, 640) making an irreversible screw engagement relatively rotatable for the amount of exceeding the backlash by releasing the clutch engagement to rotate when exceeding the backlash of reversible screw engagement and maintaining the clutch engagement when in releasing the brake actuator while the brake actuator is in an active state to improve the processability, reduce the weight, and prevent overadjustment of the shoe clearance during the thermal expansion of the brake drum.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an aqueous dispersion of thermoplastic resin microparticles containing considerably less residual solvent remaining in resin particles, and a toner for electrophotography containing considerably less residual solvent. A self-water-dispersible thermoplastic resin is swollen using an organic solvent having a boiling point lower than 100° C., which does not dissolve but can swell the self-water-dispersible thermoplastic resin, to produce a swollen material and the resulting swollen material is dispersed into an aqueous medium in the form of microparticles to produce an initial aqueous dispersion, and then the organic solvent is removed from the initial aqueous dispersion to prepare a dispersion. A toner for electrophotography contains microparticles obtained by separating microparticles of the self-water-dispersible thermoplastic resin from the aqueous dispersion of thermoplastic resin microparticles and drying the microparticles.

Abstract: In a method for intermediating trading between a building materials manufacturer and a fabrication factory, order received information is received from a construction company, a fabrication factory satisfying requirements of the order received information is retrieved from a storing part storing fabrication ability information of the fabrication factory. And based on the order received information, fabrication order information is sent to the fabrication factory and building materials order information including information of the fabrication factory, that is a destination to ship building materials from a building materials manufacturer, is sent.

Abstract: A toner for electrophotography comprises: a coloring agent and a binding resin comprising a polyester resin constituted of cyclohexanedimethanol as an essential polyol component, wherein the toner has, at 110° C., a storage elastic modulus of 3×104 Pa or less and a loss elastic modulus of 6×104 Pa or less, and, at 150° C., a storage elastic modulus of 1×10 Pa or more and a loss elastic modulus of 1×102 Pa or more.

Abstract: A mobile robot placed on an automatic production line is provided. The mobile robot collects information on operating conditions of other mobile robots placed around it and flow of workpieces on the production line and determines action to be taken next based on the formation. A production system using such a mobile robot and a system inputting an operation program corresponding to a workstation into a mobile robot automatically are also provided. This enables measures to be taken quickly against a change in production, thereby providing a system which achieves high efficiency production.

Abstract: A brake cylinder device with a built-in automatic shoe clearance adjustment device which prevents a chance of misassembly, loosing, or omitting the spacer. The brake cylinder device includes an adjustment bolt screwed into a pair of pistons symmetrically slidably positioned inside a cylinder body. A locator spring is positioned between both adjustment bolts. A locator is positioned at the end of the locator spring, and a spacer engages the top end of the locator and has a supporting portion to support the top end on the axis of the adjustment bolt. The supporting portion of the spacer has the front and back surfaces of the same shape.

Abstract: An automatic stroke adjustment device for a brake actuator having clutch rings (240, 340, 440, 540, 546, 640) making an irreversible screw engagement relatively rotatable for the amount of exceeding the backlash by releasing the clutch engagement to rotate when exceeding the backlash of reversible screw engagement and maintaining the clutch engagement when in releasing the brake actuator while the brake actuator is in an active state to improve the processability, reduce the weight, and prevent overadjustment of the shoe clearance during the thermal expansion of the brake drum.

Abstract: Use of a polyester resin obtained by reacting a divalent or higher epoxy compound, a dibasic or higher polybasic acid compound selected from a polybasic acid and/or acid anhydride and/or lower alkyl ester thereof, and a divalent or higher polyvalent alcohol in a toner for electrostatic charge development containing at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a charge control agent can provide a toner for a non-magnetic single component development having excellent fixing properties, offset resistance and development durability.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing aluminum nitride, which comprises the steps of preparing a mixed gas consisting essentially of an ammonia gas and at least 0.5% by volume of a hydrocarbon gas, calcining .gamma.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 or a precursor thereof at 300.degree. to 1,100.degree. C. so as to prepare the .gamma.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 having a moisture content of 1 weight % or less; heating the calcined .gamma.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in the mixed gas at a temperature of 1,200.degree. to 1,700.degree. C., thereby preparing porous aluminum nitride having a specific surface area of 10 m.sup.2 /g or more; and heat-treating the porous aluminum nitride in an atmosphere of an ammonia gas, or a mixed gas of an ammonia gas and an inert gas, at 1600.degree. to 2000.degree. C., so as to make contents of both carbon and oxygen contained in the aluminum nitride 1 weight % or less.

Abstract: A hydro-pneumatic suspension system adapted to be connected to first and second sides of a vehicle for leveling the vehicle in a side-to-side direction includes first and second absorbers, a pump and a gas spring element. Each of the first and second absorbers includes a piston rod provided with a piston for slidingly engaging a cylinder and an actuating chamber for an actuating liquid formed between the cylinder and the piston. The pump and the gas spring elements are connected to the actuating chamber of the first and second absorbers to control the flow of the actuating liquid. The pump and the gas spring element are independent from the first and second absorbers.

Abstract: A hydropneumatic shock absorber includes an inlet valve and an outlet valve. The inlet valve opens when the piston moves in a contracting direction so that fluid is sucked into a pump chamber, and the outlet valve opens when the piston moves in an extending direction so that the fluid is discharged from the pump chamber into a high-pressure operating chamber. Thus, the pressure in the high-pressure operating chamber does not increase when the wheel bounces, and the oscillation encountered while the vehicle is traveling is properly absorbed so that good riding comfort is realized.