Abstract: A tire testing apparatus performs the test by rotating a tire while the tire is in contact with a drum. A plurality of sensors are provided on the outer circumferential surface of the drum and are arranged side by side along a widthwise direction of the drum, thereby measuring the ground contact forces at the ground contact position with the tire. A calculation unit obtains, based on the ground contact forces measured by the sensors, a displacement amount Dy of the ground contact position in the widthwise direction and a change amount ?Fy of the ground contact force Fy in the widthwise direction which corresponds to the displacement amount Dy, thereby calculating the lateral stiffness sharing rate Ky rib on the basis of the displacement amount Dy and the change amount ?Fy.

Abstract: A tire testing apparatus of drum type includes a drum having, on a circumferential outer surface thereof, a sensor for measuring a ground contact force of a tire and a transparent portion; an image capturing device for capturing, from inside of the drum and through the transparent portion, an image of the ground contact surface of a tire; a ground contact force measurement processing unit which measures a ground contact force of a tire in planner contact with the sensor; a ground contact surface image capture processing unit which captures an image of the ground contact surface by the image capturing device when the tire comes into planner contact with the transparent portion; and a slip amount calculation unit which calculates a slip amount based on a displacement of a corresponding location which corresponds to a ground contact surface of the tire for which a measurement is made.

Abstract: A tire testing apparatus of a drum type includes: a drum including a transmission portion on an outer circumferential surface; an imaging device that images a ground contact surface of a tire from an inside of the drum via the transmission portion; a ground contact surface imaging processing unit that images, using the imaging device, the ground contact surface when the tire is brought into ground contact with the transmission portion; an edging processing unit that performs edging processing for image information of the imaged ground contact surface of the tire; a division processing unit that performs division processing for the image information subjected to the edging processing into regions which satisfy a predetermined resolution condition; a matching processing unit that performs matching processing by using the divided regions; and a slip amount calculation processing unit that calculates a slip amount and a ground contact surface moving amount.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersion liquid containing silver nano-particles that develops excellent conductivity by low-temperature calcining and has silver nano-particles stably and well dispersed in a dispersion solvent, and a method for producing the dispersion liquid containing silver nano-particles.

Abstract: A multiblade fan includes an impeller including a rotating plate and blades and further includes a fan casing having a circumferential wall and a first end face disposed adjacent to distal ends of the blades. The first end face has an inlet. The multiblade fan further includes a duct and a flow regulating block disposed on an inner surface of the first end face. The flow regulating block regulates a flow of the air. The duct includes a diffuser plate. The circumferential wall includes a tongue that is connected to the diffuser plate. The first end face has a bell mouth provided at the inlet. The flow regulating block is spaced from the circumferential wall and extends along the bell mouth in the rotation direction such that the flow regulating block is located in a range of 120 degrees from a reference position on a line connecting the rotary shaft to a tip of the tongue.

Abstract: An object is to provide a tire testing apparatus. A tire testing apparatus of a drum type includes: a drum including a transmission portion on an outer circumferential surface; an imaging device that images a ground contact surface of a tire from an inside of the drum via the transmission portion; a ground contact surface imaging processing unit that images, using the imaging device, the ground contact surface when the tire is brought into ground contact with the transmission portion; an edging processing unit that performs edging processing for image information of the imaged ground contact surface of the tire; a division processing unit that performs division processing for the image information subjected to the edging processing into regions which satisfy a predetermined resolution condition; a matching processing unit that performs matching processing by using the divided regions; and a slip amount calculation processing unit that calculates a slip amount and a ground contact surface moving amount.

Abstract: Provided is an ink for use in manufacturing electronic components via inkjet printing, the ink being capable of stably maintaining silver nanoparticle dispersibility for extended periods, even in the presence of oxygen, and can be sintered to obtain a sintered body exhibiting superior electrical conductivity. The ink according to the present invention is an inkjet printing ink comprising surface-modified silver nanoparticles (A) and a dispersion solvent (B), wherein the (A) are surface-modified silver nanoparticles having a configuration in which surfaces of the silver nanoparticles are coated with a protective agent containing an amine; an amount of the (A) (in terms of silver) is not less than 30 wt. % of the ink; and the (B) comprises a secondary alcohol and/or a tertiary alcohol (b-1), and a hydrocarbon (b-2), wherein a total amount of the (b-1) and the (b-2) is not less than 70 wt. % of a total amount of the dispersion solvent (B).

Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes: an impeller driven by a drive motor to rotate; a scroll casing including an inlet-port face having an opening and a wall portion having positions at which distances from an axis line that is a rotation center of the impeller differ from each other, and changing an air flow in a centrifugal direction generated by rotation of the impeller into an air flow in one direction; an air admitting portion including a bell mouth portion having a large-diameter side end placed on an inlet-air-flow upstream side of the inlet-port face; and a protruding portion extending from the air admitting portion in a direction orthogonal to the axis line, which is the rotation center of the impeller, and in a direction away from the rotation center and surrounding part of the bell mouth portion.

Abstract: A hand dryer includes an air-stream generating device including a device air inlet, an inner housing that accommodates therein the air-stream generating device and has an inner air inlet formed in an intake surface thereof, and an outer housing that accommodates therein the inner housing and the air-stream generating device and has an outer air inlet formed therein. An intake air passage that connects the outer air inlet and the device air inlet to each other is formed inside the outer housing to include the intake surface and an opposing surface as a portion of a wall surface thereof, and a projection is provided on the opposing surface to project from a region that is opposed to the inner air inlet towards the intake surface. The projection has a first surface facing an upstream side in the intake air passage.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a local anesthetic-containing composition characterized by (1) exerting immediate and long-lasting medicinal effect without sustained release after administration, and/or (2) having storage stability. The present invention provides an acidic emulsion composition comprising a local anesthetic and a glyceride in which a fatty acid(s) having 6 to 12 carbon atoms is/are bound to glycerin via an ester bond(s).

Abstract: A multiblade fan includes an impeller including a rotating plate and blades and further includes a fan casing having a circumferential wall and a first end face disposed adjacent to distal ends of the blades. The first end face has an inlet. The multiblade fan further includes a duct and a flow regulating block disposed on an inner surface of the first end face. The flow regulating block regulates a flow of the air. The duct includes a diffuser plate. The circumferential wall includes a tongue that is connected to the diffuser plate. The first end face has a bell mouth provided at the inlet. The flow regulating block is spaced from the circumferential wall and extends along the bell mouth in the rotation direction such that the flow regulating block is located in a range of 120 degrees from a reference position on a line connecting the rotary shaft to a tip of the tongue.

Abstract: A hand dryer includes an air-stream generating device including a device air inlet, an inner housing that accommodates therein the air-stream generating device and has an inner air inlet formed in an intake surface thereof, and an outer housing that accommodates therein the inner housing and the air-stream generating device and has an outer air inlet formed therein. An intake air passage that connects the outer air inlet and the device air inlet to each other is formed inside the outer housing to include the intake surface and an opposing surface as a portion of a wall surface thereof, and a projection is provided on the opposing surface to project from a region that is opposed to the inner air inlet towards the intake surface. The projection has a first surface facing an upstream side in the intake air passage.

Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes: an impeller driven by a drive motor to rotate; a scroll casing including an inlet-port face having an opening and a wall portion having positions at which distances from an axis line that is a rotation center of the impeller differ from each other, and changing an air flow in a centrifugal direction generated by rotation of the impeller into an air flow in one direction; an air admitting portion including a bell mouth portion having a large-diameter side end placed on an inlet-air-flow upstream side of the inlet-port face; and a protruding portion extending from the air admitting portion in a direction orthogonal to the axis line, which is the rotation center of the impeller, and in a direction away from the rotation center and surrounding part of the bell mouth portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides silver nano-particles that are excellent in stability and develop excellent conductivity by low-temperature calcining, a producing method for same, and a silver coating composition comprising the silver nano-particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides silver nano-particles with excellent stability and conductivity by low-temperature calcining, a producing method for same, and a silver coating composition. A method for producing silver nano-particles comprising: preparing an amine mixture liquid comprising: an aliphatic hydrocarbon monoamine (A) with an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and one amino group, the aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 6 or more carbon atoms in total; an aliphatic hydrocarbon monoamine (B) with an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and one amino group, the aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 5 or less carbon atoms in total; and an aliphatic hydrocarbon diamine (C) with an aliphatic hydrocarbon group and two amino groups, the aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 8 or less carbon atoms in total; mixing a silver compound and the amine mixture liquid to form a complex compound; and thermally decomposing the complex compound by heating to form silver nano-particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a silver nano-particle production method which is safe and simple also in terms of scaled-up industrial-level production, in a so-called thermal decomposition method in which a silver-amine complex compound is thermally decomposed to form silver nano-particles. A method for producing silver nano-particles comprising: mixing an aliphatic hydrocarbon amine and a silver compound in the presence of an alcohol solvent having 3 or more carbon atoms to form a complex compound comprising the silver compound and the amine; and thermally decomposing the complex compound by heating to form silver nano-particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides silver nano-particles that are excellent in stability and develop excellent conductivity by low-temperature calcining, a method for producing the silver nano-particles, and a silver coating composition comprising the silver nano-particles. A method for producing silver nano-particles comprising: mixing a silver compound with an aliphatic amine comprising at least a branched aliphatic hydrocarbon monoamine (D) comprising a branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group and one amino group, said branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 4 or more carbon atoms, to form a complex compound comprising the silver compound and the amine; and thermally decomposing the complex compound by heating to form silver nano-particles.

Abstract: A disinfectant comprising the following (a), (b), (c) and (d), but no other microbicidal disinfecting agents intended for microbicidal disinfection: (a) 40 to 90% (w/w) of ethanol, isopropyl alcohol or a mixture thereof; (b) 0.1 to 2% (w/w) of lactic acid; (c) 0.01 to 2% (w/w) of citric acid; and (d) 0.001 to 0.1% (w/w) of a zinc-containing compound which releases zinc ion in solution, relative to the whole disinfectant.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersion liquid containing silver nano-particles that develops excellent conductivity by low-temperature calcining and has silver nano-particles stably and well dispersed in a dispersion solvent, and a method for producing the dispersion liquid containing silver nano-particles.

Abstract: Silver nanoparticle-containing ink which develops excellent conductivity by low-temperature calcining and has silver nano-particles stably and well dispersed in a dispersion solvent. Method for producing the silver nanoparticle-containing ink, by: mixing a silver compound with amines comprising an aliphatic hydrocarbon monoamine (A) comprising one amino group and an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 6 or more carbon atoms in total; and further comprising at least one of: an aliphatic hydrocarbon monoamine (B) comprising one amino group and an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 5 or less carbon atoms in total; and an aliphatic hydrocarbon diamine (C) comprising two amino groups and an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 8 or less carbon atoms in total; to form a complex compound comprising the silver compound and the amines; thermally decomposing the complex compound by heating to form silver nano-particles; and dispersing the silver nano-particles in a dispersion solvent containing an alicyclic hydrocarbon.