Abstract: Provided is a PSA sheet that shows high peel strength to low polar adherends while having excellent flexibility. This invention provides a PSA sheet that comprises a PSA layer (A) constituting an adhesive face and a viscoelastic layer (B) supporting the PSA layer (A). In the PSA sheet, the viscoelastic layer (B) comprises hollow particles or have bubbles. The PSA layer (A) comprises an acrylic polymer (a) as the base polymer. The copolymerization ratio of an acidic group-containing monomer in the acrylic polymer (a) is 5% by weight or lower.

Abstract: A transmission method executed by a transmission device, the transmission method including performing a plurality of transmitting processes in accordance with a plurality of transmitting patterns, each of the plurality of transmitting processes including transmitting a plurality of signals for a plurality of directions in parallel by forming a plurality of beams corresponding to the plurality of directions, each of the plurality of transmitting patterns being defined a combination of directions to be transmitted in parallel, receiving a result of a determining from a reception device, the determining including determining whether or not, for each of a plurality of receiving processes, the at least one signal satisfies a predetermined condition, each of the plurality of receiving processes including receiving at least one signal transmitted from the transmission device, and selecting a transmitting direction for the reception device from the plurality of directions based on a result of the determining.

Abstract: The present invention provides a soft magnetic powder core with a high electrical resistivity and a high strength. The soft magnetic powder core of the present invention is characterized in that in the soft magnetic powder core containing soft magnetic metal particles with Fe as the main component, the powder core has the structure in which oxide portions are present among soft magnetic metal particles, and the oxide portions are composed of oxides containing V, B and Fe. Further, the amount of B contained in the oxide portions of the powder core is 0.5 or more times and 5.0 or less times of the amount of V in terms of mass ratio.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is provided for forming an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive that constitutes an adhesive face. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises an amino group-containing (meth)acrylate as its monomeric component. The amino group-containing (meth)acrylate accounts for 5% by mass or more of all monomeric components of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.

Abstract: This invention provides a PSA sheet comprising a PSA layer (A) constituting an adhesive face and a viscoelastic layer (B) supporting the PSA layer (A). The PSA layer (A) comprises, as a base polymer (A), a block copolymer of a monovinyl-substituted aromatic compound and a conjugated diene compound. The base polymer (A) comprises 30% by mass or more of a diblock copolymer. The viscoelastic layer (B) has a thickness of 200 ?m or larger.

Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet maintains high magnetic properties and decreases usage of heavy rare earth elements. The magnet includes main phase grains and grain boundary phases, the main phase grain containing a core portion and a shell portion. X in the main phase LR(2-x)HRxT14B of the core portion ranges from 0.00 to 0.07; x in the main phase LR(2-x)HRxT14B of the shell portion ranges from 0.02 to 0.40; and the maximum thickness of the shell portion ranges from 7 nm to 100 nm. LR contains Nd and one or more light rare earth elements consisting of Y, La, Ce, Pr and Sm; HR contains Dy or/and Tb and one or more heavy rare earth elements consisting of Gd, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu; T contains Fe or/and Co and one or two kinds of Mn and Ni; and B represents boron partly replaced by C (carbon).

Abstract: A PSA sheet is provided, having an adhesive face formed of an acrylic PSA layer comprising an acrylic polymer. The PSA sheet has a peel strength of 5 N/10 mm or greater. The peel strength is measured as such that the adhesive face is directly adhered to an ethylene-propylene-diene rubber surface and after 20 minutes, peeled in the 180° direction at a tensile speed of 50 mm/min.

Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus includes antenna elements, each receiving a first signal and a second signal, a first estimator that estimates first channel information of the first signal, a false signal generator that generates false signals that are equal in number to or greater in number than the number of the antenna elements, each of the false signals arriving from a unique direction that is different from a direction of arrival of the first signal, a weight generator that generates first weights, each being associated with a corresponding one of the false signals and forming a null in the direction of arrival of the first signal, a multiplier that multiplies a signals received by the respective antenna elements by the first weights to acquire weight-multiplied signals, and a second estimator that estimates second channel information of the second signal using the weight-multiplied signals.

Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of forming a film having a dark black appearance and high corrosion resistance on a zinc plated component in a simple process, and a black coating film-forming vehicle component and/or fastening component that is obtained by: treating a surface of a zinc plated metal substrate with a black chemical conversion treatment agent containing trivalent chromium as an active ingredient, to form a black chemical conversion treatment film having an L value (brightness) of from 33 to 30; coating a black coating composition containing a black pigment in an amount of from 25 to 65% by weight in a thermosetting film-forming component and an alkoxysilane oligomer, on the black chemical conversion treatment film; and heat-curing the black coating composition thus coated.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an adhesive sheet having a surface sliding property and stainproof property. [Means for solving] An adhesive sheet is one that comprises at least a substrate and an adhesive layer, a static friction coefficient of the substrate is 0.05 or more and 1.50 or less, and an absolute value of a ?L* value of the substrate is 0.01 or more and 45.00 or less. A load at a time of 5% elongation of the substrate is preferably 1 N/cm or more and 15 N/cm or less. And a stress relaxation rate of the substrate by elongating to 10%, stopping the elongation at that state and after lapsing 600 seconds is preferably 40% or more and 100% or less.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is provided for forming an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive that constitutes an adhesive face. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprises an amino group-containing (meth)acrylate as its monomeric component. The amino group-containing (meth)acrylate accounts for 5% by mass or more of all monomeric components of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a silicon oligomer having a novel function that has not been achieved by a conventional condensation product of water and a tetraalkoxysilane. Provided are a silicon oligomer represented by the following formula (I) and a production method therefor: wherein R1 to R10 each independently is an alkyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group, each having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; X1 to X3 each independently is a group represented by the following formula (II); n is 0 or 1; and m is an integer of 1 to 3 when n is 0, and m is 1 when n is 1: wherein A is an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms which may be branched, and l is an integer of 1 to 3.

Abstract: A soft magnetic powder core which can have a high electrical resistivity, a high magnetic flux density and a high strength easily, and the soft magnetic powder core can be used in various electromagnetic components such as a motor, an actuator, a generator and a reactor. The soft magnetic powder core in which the glass portion is scattered among the soft magnetic particles, the soft magnetic particle having the core particle with iron as the main component and the insulating coating layer containing P, O and Fe. Further, the junction portion with iron oxide as the main component is formed between the soft magnetic particle and the glass portion.

Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a plurality of antennas configured to receive a radio wave; a processor configured to execute a program; and a memory configured to store the program, wherein the processor preforms operations to: measure reception strength of a radio wave of an estimation target at each of the plurality of antennas; executes first calculation processing of calculating first correlation coefficients of antenna pairs among the plurality of antennas and calculating a second correlation coefficient of the plurality of antennas by using the first correlation coefficients for each of a plurality of direction-of-arrival candidates of the radio wave; and estimates a first direction of arrival of the radio wave of the estimation target based on the second correlation coefficient for each of the direction-of-arrival candidates.

Abstract: The present invention provides an R-T-B based permanent magnet suitable as a magnet with a variable magnetic force for a motor with variable magnetic flux, which has a high residual magnetic flux density, a low coercivity, and a magnetic force that can be reversibly varied by a small external magnetic field. A permanent magnet with a high residual magnetic flux density and a low coercivity that is suitable as a variable magnet for a motor with variable magnetic flux can be obtained, by selecting the rare earth elements consisting of one or more of Y, La and Ce for a predetermined amount of the rare earth element(s) R in the R-T-B based permanent magnet, and further adding a predetermined amount of the additive element(s) which is at least one of Al, Cu, Zr, Hf and Ti.

Abstract: The present invention provides a permanent magnet which is excellent in the temperature properties and the magnetic properties of which will not be significantly decreased, compared to the conventional R-T-B based permanent magnet. In the R-T-B based structure, a stacked structure of R1-T-B based crystal layer and Y-T-B based crystal layer can be formed by alternatively stacking R1-T-B and Y-T-B. In this way, a high magnetic anisotropy field of the R1-T-B based crystal layer can be maintained while the temperature coefficient of the Y-T-B based crystal layer can be improved.

Abstract: The present invention provides a soft magnetic powder core with a high electrical resistivity and a high strength. The soft magnetic powder core of the present invention is characterized in that in the soft magnetic powder core containing soft magnetic metal particles with Fe as the main component, the powder core has the structure in which oxide portions are present among soft magnetic metal particles, and the oxide portions are composed of oxides containing V, B and Fe. Further, the amount of B contained in the oxide portions of the powder core is 0.5 or more times and 5.0 or less times of the amount of V in terms of mass ratio.

Abstract: This invention provides a PSA sheet comprising a PSA layer (A) constituting an adhesive face and a viscoelastic layer (B) supporting the PSA layer (A). The PSA layer (A) comprises, as a base polymer (A), a block copolymer of a monovinyl-substituted aromatic compound and a conjugated diene compound. The base polymer (A) comprises 30% by mass or more of a diblock copolymer. The viscoelastic layer (B) has a thickness of 200 ?m or larger.

Abstract: A relay box is provided with: a main housing; and a mounting section, which is provided in the main housing, and has selectively mounted thereon a relay block having a plug-in relay mounted thereon and removable therefrom, and a relay module which houses, in a module case, a circuit configuring body having a switching element mounted thereon.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rare earth based sintered magnet. The magnet is a rare earth based permanent magnet with a R-T-B (R represents one or more elements selected from Y and rare earth elements, T represents one or more metal elements including Fe or the combination of Fe and Co, and B represents B or the combination of B and C) based composition. When a R-rich phase (R represents rare earth element(s)) with atomic ratio of (Fe+Co)/(LR+HR+Fe+Co)?0.2 (LR represents Y and light rare earth element(s) selected from 57La to 63Eu, and HR represents heavy rare earth element(s) selected from 64Gd to 71Lu) is present in the grain boundary triple point, a region with HR/(LR+HR)?0.01 (atomic ratio) is present in the R-rich phase, and the region with HR/(LR+HR)?0.01 accounts for 10% to 90% of the area of the grain boundary triple point.