Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive composition used for offset printing, which provides an offset printing plate with excellent durability and developability. The photosensitive composition comprises:(I) a film-forming binder resin,(II) a photosensitive substance, and(III) a microgel having a particle size of 0.01 to2.0 .mu. prepared by emulsion polymerization using a polymeric emulsifier having an Sp value of 9 to 16.

Abstract: A rear spoiler mounting structure of an automotive vehicle has a supporting frame of a back door forming a tail lift gate. A rear window glass is mounted and fixed on the supporting frame and has a pair of indented portions or cutouts provided on the right and left peripheries of the rear window glass. A rear spoiler, having a pair of mounting bases, connects with the vehicle body with the mounting bases located so as to overlay the respective indented portions or cutouts to cover them fully and completely. The mounting bases of the rear spoiler are connected to the supporting frame on opposite sides of the rear window glass.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion coating composition comprising at least one kind of resin, wherein any one of said resin or resins has at least one functional group selected from an active hydrogen-containing group, a substituted acylamide group and a water dispersible or water-soluble group, and wherein the resin composition as a whole contains each of the above described kinds of functional groups.

Abstract: The present invention imparts elasticity, reproducibility of dots, film toughness and wear resistance to printing plates obtained therefrom, in addition to good water developability and mechanical properties, by providing a photosensitive resin composition comprising:(A) 10 to 90% by weight of specific crosslinked polymer particles having a particle size of 0.01 to 5 micron,(B) 10 to 70% by weight of a specific hydrophobic elastomer,(C) 1 to 25% by weight of a hydophilic polymer having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 1,000,000,(D) 1 to 30% by weight of a basic nitrogen-containing compound,(E) 1 to 60% by weight of a photopolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and(F) 0.01 to 10% by weight of a photopolymerization initiator; % by weight being based on a total amount of the resin composition. The present invention also provides a flexoprinting plate obtained from the above resin composition and a process for producing the flexoprinting plate.

Abstract: A photosensitive diazo resin-containing photosensitive resin composition for lithographic printing comprising a sensitizing dye having an anion group in a molecule as a counter ion of a diazonium group.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved process by which dissolved oxygen is effectively removed from a photosensitive resin layer of a photosensitive resin plate. The process comprises preliminarily exposing the photosensitive resin to light to quench oxygen dissolved in said photosensitive resin layer before conducting a main exposure. The photosensitive resin layer is prepared from a photosensitive resin composition which comprises:(a) a polymer binder,(b) a radically polymerizable monomer,(c) a sensitizing dye, and(d) a photopolymerization initiator which is excited by a light of a different wave length from a light exciting the sensitizing dye.The preliminary exposure is conducted with a light only exciting the sensitizing dye and the main exposure is conducted with a light exciting the photopolymerization initiator.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a polyether acrylamide derivative of the following general formula (I): ##STR1## as well as an active energy ray curable resin composition comprising at least one polyether acrylamide derivative of the above general formula (I) and a cured product produced by curing such an active energy curable resin composition with active energy rays.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive diazo resin for lithographic printing represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X.sup.- is a counter anion, Y is a divalent bonding group selected from the group consisting of --NH--, --S-- and --O--, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are groups which are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group and an alkoxy group, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are groups which are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, an alkyl group and a phenyl group, 1 and m are integers which satisfy the relation:1+m=2 to 100, 1/m=30 to 99/1 to 70and A is a quaternary ammonium salt-containing group represented by the formula: ##STR2## (wherein B is a straight or branched divalent C.sub.1-10 alkyl group which bonds to an aromatic ring by a group selected from the group consisting of --CH.sub.2 --, --CO--, --O--, --S-- and --N--, and R.sub.6, R.sub.7 and R.sub.8 are groups which are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a C.sub.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive resin plate which effectively prevents dot gain by covering the photosensitive resin layer with a specific matte layer. The photosensitive resin plate comprises a substrate, a photosensitive resin layer formed on the substrate and a resin matte layer formed on the photosensitive resin layer, wherein the resin matte layer contains a polymerization inhibiting material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which, can be hot melt molding and and is water-developable. The composition does not need the preliminary exposure process and when cured has suitable hardness and printing properties. The photosensitive resin composition comprises;(A) a water soluble or water dispersible polyvinyl alcohol prepared by saponifying a copolymer obtained by copolymerizing 90 to 99.9 mol % of a vinyl ester and 0.1 to 10 mol % of an ionic group-containing monomer; said polyvinyl alcohol having a saponification degree of the vinyl ester unit of 60 to 75 mol % and a hot melt flow starting temperature of 95.degree. to 170.degree. C.,(B) a polymerizable compound prepared by reacting in the presence of an acid catalyst, (i) N-methylol (meth)acrylamide or N-alkoxymethyl (meth)acrylamide and (ii) a compound selected from the group consisting of monoalcohols, polyhydric alcohols, amides, haloalkylamides, aromatic compounds, ureas and mixtures thereof, and(C) a photopolymerization initiator.

Abstract: Polymer microparticles having a three-dimensional network structure and an average particle size of 0.01 to 1 micron are obtained by emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomeric composition containing (a) at least one polyfunctional monomer having a plurality of polymerizable sites, or (b) a combination of two ethylenically unsaturated monomers each bearing mutually reactive functional groups in an aqueous medium in the presence of a compound or resin having a betaine group. The betqine compound or resin is incorporated into the polymer microparticles by physically adhering or covalently binding thereto to enhance the dispensing stability of the microparticles over a wide range of pH.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photosensitive flexographic resin plate having excellent wear resistance and giving relief image faithful to a negative film. The photosensitive flexographic printing plate is composed of a base plate and a photosensitive resin layer thereon wherein said photosensitive resin layer is formed from a resin composition comprising a resin having rubber elasticity, an unsaturated monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and resin particles having an average particle size of about 0.01 to 6 micron, and when said photosensitive resin layer is cured, the cured layer has a JIS A hardness of 30.degree. to 80.degree. and an impact resilience of at least 20%.

Abstract: A radiation curable liquid resin composition comprising a radiation curable liquid base resin and polymer microparticles having an average particle size from 0.01 to 0.6 microns. The incorporation of polymer microparticles to the base resin may improve the rheological property of the liquid composition and also the physical properties of cured film therefrom.

Abstract: Polymeric microparticles having bound therewith a pesticide are disclosed. The microparticles are prepared by polymerizing a mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers. Active substances may be bound to the microparticles by introducing an ethylenically unsaturated function to the active substance and copolymerizing the resulting compound with the monomer mixture, or by polymerizing the monomer mixture in the presence of the active substance, or by impregnating the microparticles with a solution of the active substance.

Abstract: Promotors for a crosslinking reaction involved in the curing of a system comprising crosslinkable polymers are bound to polymeric microparticles having a diameter of about 0.01 to 6 microns prepared by polymerizing a mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers. The microparticles carrying the crosslinking reaction promotor may be incorporated to coating compositions, printing inks, sealants, adhesives and other polymeric products in place of conventional crosslinking reaction promotors.

Abstract: Disintegration type resin particles having an average grain diameter of 0.01 to 250.mu. and being composed of a crosslinked resin having at least one crosslinking structure carried metal ester bond of the formula:--X--O.sub.m M--R.sub.1).sub.nwherein X represents ##STR1## R.sub.1 is a monovalent, bioactive organic acid residue; M stands for a polyvalent metal having a valence of 3 or more; m is an integer of 2 or more; n is an integer of 1 or more, providing that the sum of m and n is equal to the valence of said metal M, and a coating composition containing said resin particles are provided. The coating obtained is characterized in that it is gradually hydrolyzed in an ionic atmosphere as in sea water and dissolved out, liberating a bioactive organic acid as well as metal ions.

Abstract: A curable composition which comprises a polymerizable compound having an acylurethane group of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group and ##STR2## is the residue of a hydroxyl group-containing compound excluding a hydroxyl group therefrom, at least 1/10 of the total hydroxyl groups in the hydroxyl group-containing compound being substituted with said acylurethane group.

Abstract: An electrodeposition coating composition comprising (a) a water-dispersible, electrically depositable binder resin and (b) water-insoluble, internally crosslinked polymer microparticles having a particle size from 0.01 to 2 microns, said polymer microparticles bearing on their surfaces physically adhered or covalently bound thereto an amphoionic group of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R represents an unsubstituted or substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkylene or phenylene, A is --COOH or --SO.sub.3 H.

Abstract: Disintegration type, crosslinked acrylic resin particles having an average grain diameter of 0.01 to 250 .mu. and containing metal ester bond bearing crosslinks uniformly distributed within the particle bodies are provided in spherical form by the polymerization of 5 to 98% by weight of at least one metal ester bond bearing multifunctional polymerizable monomer and 95 to 2% by weight of at least one other polymerizable monomer. The instant resin particles are specifically useful as resinous filler in an antifouling paint and other compositions.

Abstract: An anodic electrodeposition composition containing a water-soluble or water-dispersible modified epoxy resin derived from an epoxy resin having two epoxide groups and at least one alcoholic hydroxy group at the terminals and the middle of the resin backbone, respectively. The modified epoxy resin has at least one polymeric side chain block bound to said alcoholic hydroxy group and at least one acid group derived from said terminal epoxide group.