Abstract: A manufacturing method for a starch-containing composition that is not prone to collapsingshape in a liquid during heat cooking, is highly lusterless, and has excellent appearance which utilizes an extruder including a feeder for loading a food material and a die for discharging the food material after kneading and shaping. The screw has a first flight, a kneading, and a second flight section, and the barrel has a bend section at the first-half of the second flight section of the screw. A composition containing at least 3.0 mass % insoluble dietary fiber, at least 10.0 mass % starch, at least 3.0 mass % protein, and a dry-basis water content of at least 25 mass % is prepared.; The composition is then heated under pressure, kneaded, and depressurized until the degree of gelatinization is lowered by at least 6 mass %.

Abstract: A solid paste composition for cooking, which has elasticity, suppresses a rubber-like texture, and has a good chewy texture. The solid paste composition satisfies containing 2.0 mass % or more of an insoluble dietary fiber in terms of dry mass, 15 mass % or more of a starch in terms of dry mass, and 5.5 mass % or more of a protein in terms of dry mass. The solid paste composition further satisfies at least either of the ratio of the number of CBB-stained sites having an area of at least 200 ?m2 and a roundness coefficient of at least 0.3, to the number of CBB-stained sites being 3% or more, and the ratio of the total area of CBB-stained sites having an area of at least 200 ?m2 and a roundness coefficient of at least 0.3, to the image area of a cross-section of the composition being 0.3% or more.

Abstract: A coating apparatus for conducting coating by discharging liquid droplets onto a substrate, is provided with a discharging head having an external terminal to receive control signals and a plurality of nozzles to discharge liquid droplets in response to the control signals; a drive control board to output the control signals to the discharging head; a cable to transmit the control signals from the drive control board to the discharging head; a relay board having a first terminal to form a first joint section to joint with the external terminal of the discharging head and a second terminal to form a second joint section to joint with the cable; and an intercepting member to intercept contact between the first joint section and outside air and to intercept contact between the second joint section and outside air.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thiol compound derivative represented by the following formula (1), a curable composition containing the derivative, and a molded product made of the composition. More particularly, the invention relates to a thiol compound derivative which is added to a polymer having reactivity to a thiol derivative substituent to provide a curable composition, a curable composition containing the derivative and a crosslinkable halogen-containing crosslinking polymer, and a crosslinked molded product of the composition. wherein X1, X2 and X3 are each a group represented by the following formula (2).

Abstract: A coating apparatus for conducting coating by discharging liquid droplets onto a substrate, is provided with a discharging head having an external terminal to receive control signals and a plurality of nozzles to discharge liquid droplets in response to the control signals; a drive control board to output the control signals to the discharging head; a cable to transmit the control signals from the drive control board to the discharging head; a relay board having a first terminal to form a first joint section to joint with the external terminal of the discharging head and a second terminal to form a second joint section to joint with the cable; and an intercepting member to intercept contact between the first joint section and outside air and to intercept contact between the second joint section and outside air.

Abstract: The invention provides a coating method by which plural coating solutions of a coating solution formed from organic EL material for formation of an organic EL layer in an organic EL element and another coating solution formed from organic photoelectric conversion element material for formation of an organic photoelectric conversion element layer can be coated to prepare a multilayer film with no damage of the organic EL layer and organic photoelectric conversion element layer, and also provides a coating apparatus with the coating method. It is a feature in the coating method that plural coating units each facing a backup roll and sandwiching a long length support with the backup roll are provided, and plural coating solutions are coated onto the support by the plural coating units to form a multilayer coating film, wherein the moving support is wound up by the continuously moving backup roll supporting the support.

Abstract: A method that is capable of producing a vinyl chloride-based polymer having excellent thermal stability without sacrificing productivity is provided. The method includes polymerizing a vinyl chloride-based monomer in the presence of a vanadium compound (A) represented by formula: Vi(?O)jZk (wherein i is an integer of 2 to 5, j represents 0 or 1, Z represents a ligand such as is an organic ligand that can bond to the vanadium atom via a hetero atom, and a plurality of ligands Z may be bonded together to form a ring that also includes the vanadium atom as a member of the ring, and k is an integer from 1 to 5), and in the presence of at least one aluminum compound (B).

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve the resilience and the shot feeling of the golf ball to be obtained by reducing the content of trans-1,4-bond in a golf ball using for a core a polybutadiene having a high content of cis-1,4-bond. The golf ball of the present invention has a core comprising at least one layer or more and a cover covering the core, at least one layer of the core obtained by molding a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber containing a polybutadiene obtained by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene in the presence of a catalyst containing a metallosalen complex and aluminoxane, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve the resilience and the durability of the golf ball to be obtained by reducing the content of trans-1,4-bond in a one-piece golf ball using a polybutadiene having a high content of cis-1,4-bond. The one-piece golf ball of the present invention is obtained by molding a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber containing a polydiene obtained by polymerizing diene in the presence of a catalyst containing a metallosalen complex and aluminoxane, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thiol compound derivative represented by the following formula (1), a curable composition containing the derivative, and a molded product made of the composition. More particularly, the invention relates to a thiol compound derivative which is added to a polymer having reactivity to a thiol derivative substituent to provide a curable composition, a curable composition containing the derivative and a crosslinkable halogen-containing crosslinking polymer, and a crosslinked molded product of the composition. wherein X1, X2 and X3 are each a group represented by the following formula (2).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thiol compound derivative represented by the following formula (1), a curable composition containing the derivative, and a molded product made of the composition. More particularly, the invention relates to a thiol compound derivative which is added to a polymer having reactivity to a thiol derivative substituent to provide a curable composition, a curable composition containing the derivative and a crosslinkable halogen-containing crosslinking polymer, and a crosslinked molded product of the composition.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve the resilience and the durability of the golf ball to be obtained by reducing the content of trans-1,4-bond in a one-piece golf ball using a polybutadiene having a high content of cis-1,4-bond. The one-piece golf ball of the present invention is obtained by molding a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber containing a polydiene obtained by polymerizing diene in the presence of a catalyst containing a metallosalen complex and aluminoxane, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to improve the resilience and the shot feeling of the golf ball to be obtained by reducing the content of trans-1,4-bond in a golf ball using for a core a polybutadiene having a high content of cis-1,4-bond. The golf ball of the present invention has a core comprising at least one layer or more and a cover covering the core, at least one layer of the core obtained by molding a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber containing a polybutadiene obtained by polymerizing 1,3-butadiene in the presence of a catalyst containing a metallosalen complex and aluminoxane, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thiol compound derivative represented by the following formula (1), a curable composition containing the derivative, and a molded product made of the composition. More particularly, the invention relates to a thiol compound derivative which is added to a polymer having reactivity to a thiol derivative substituent to provide a curable composition, a curable composition containing the derivative and a crosslinkable halogen-containing crosslinking polymer, and a crosslinked molded product of the composition. wherein X1, X2 and X3 are each a group represented by the following formula (2).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thiol compound derivative represented by the following formula (1), a curable composition containing the derivative, and a molded product made of the composition.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording sheet comprising a support having thereon an ink receptive layer containing silica microparticles and a water-soluble resin, wherein the ink receptive layer is a porous layer having ink receptive voids with a peak value in a distribution curve of radii of the ink receptive voids of 10 to 50 nm; and the silica microparticles are prepared by pulverizing a silica powder, two parameters X and Y of the silica microparticles satisfying the following relationship: 150<Y+17×loge(X)<500, X being a number of silica microparticles having a diameter of not less than 10 ?m contained per gram of the silica microparticles; and Y being an average particle diameter of the silica microparticles measured in nm.

Abstract: A spray coating apparatus is provided with a conveying apparatus that conveys the object to be coated in the conveyance direction, a spraying head that is placed in a direction that intersects said conveyance direction and that coats the coating solution onto the object to be coated, and a tensile force applying device that applies a prescribed tensile force to the object to be coated in the coating section by said spraying head, and said tensile force applying device maintains the variation of the average positions of the surface of the object to be coated in said coating section from the tip of said spray head, between in the uncoated condition and during coating to be within 0.5% relative to the width of the object to be coated at right angles to said conveyance direction.

Abstract: A method for producing an ink-jet recording medium, comprising the steps of: (a) shear processing a dispersion of pigment particles at a shear rate of 103 to 105 s?1; (b) mixing the dispersion of pigment particles with a water-soluble polymer to obtain a coating composition; and (c) applying the coating composition onto a surface of a support.

Abstract: A spray coating device for coating of a surface layer of an inkjet recording sheet, to form a surface layer by spraying coating solution onto at least one layer of ink absorption layer formed on a substrate is composed of a backup roller to support a substrate and to carry out a continuous conveyance of the substrate, a spray coater placed near a substrate to carry out spray coating of coating solution onto the substrate and a coating solution scatter prevention means to prevent sprayed coating solution from scattering, including a body having a box-shaped structure with an opening on a side of the spray coater and a suction means connected to the body to reduce pressure in the body.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material comprising a substrate having thereon an ink absorbing layer containing a mordant which exhibits the following properties: when a thin layer chromatograph is prepared by immersion coating in 1 weight % aqueous solution of the mordant, the thin layer chromatography results in; a) an Rf flow rate value being equal at most 0.4, when a dye represented by following Formula (1) is developed using a developing solvent containing ethanol and water at a volume ratio of 1:1; b) the Rf value being at most 0.3, when C. I. Direct Blue 199 dye is developed using the same developing solvent; and c) the Rf value being at most 0.5, when C. I. Direct Yellow 86 dye is developed using the same developing solvent.