Abstract: A rigidity measurement device of a tread ring comprises a support jig for detachably holding a tread ring unit. The support jig has an open part for deformably exposing a measurement area, which is one portion of the tread ring, to the exterior, and a restraining part for essentially non-deformably restraining a non-measurement area, which is an area other than the measurement area of the tread ring. The restraining part inhibits deformation of the non-measurement area, whereby stress is no longer generated in the non-measurement area and the rigidity of the measurement area alone can be measured.

Abstract: An airless tire includes a tread ring having a cylindrical form and a ground contact surface, a hub positioned on radial direction inner side of the tread ring and formed to be fixed to an axle, and a spoke structure connecting the tread ring and hub. The tread ring includes a tread rubber layer forming the ground contact surface, and a reinforcing rubber layer formed on tire radial direction inner side of the tread layer, and the reinforcing layer is formed of a rubber material obtained by co-crosslinking a rubber composition including a rubber component, an ?, ?-unsaturated carboxylic acid metal salt and a peroxide such that the metal salt has amount in range of 10 to 80 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component and the rubber component has content rate of butadiene rubber in range of 10 to 100% by mass.

Abstract: An airless tire includes a cylindrical tread ring, a hub and a spoke structure connecting the tread ring and hub. The spoke structure has a tread-side annular component, a hub-side annular component, and spoke plates radially extending from the hub-side to tread-side components, each spoke plate has thickness having first tapered-thickness region, second tapered-thickness region and minimum-thickness region such that the first region radially extending outward has the thickness gradually reducing from first position at which the hub-side component is bonded, the second region radially extending inward has the thickness gradually reducing from second position at which the tread-side component is bonded, and the minimum-thickness region has the minimum thickness between the first and second regions, and the first and second regions are formed such that each of tire radial lengths of the first and second regions is at least 0.05 times a tire radial length of a spoke plate.

Abstract: A spoke casting device for integrally cast-molding a spoke of an airless tire includes a casting mold including upper and lower molds which relatively moves between mold closed and mold open states in tire axial direction, a positioning device which concentrically positions a hub and a tread ring with respect to the cast mold, and a demolding device which pushes out an airless tire from the lower mold in the open state. The cast mold concentrically holds the ring and hub between the upper and lower molds and forms a cavity for casting a spoke made of a polymer material between the ring and hub held in the closed state, and the positioning device includes a first positioning device including an outer peripheral surface contact portion such that the contact portion makes contact with outer peripheral surface of the ring and positions the ring with respect to the cast mold.

Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire has high durability performance. A non-pneumatic tire is provided with: an annular tread section (2) which comes into contact with the road surface; an annular inner peripheral section (3) which is located on the inside of the tread section (2) in the radial direction of the tire; and a plurality of connection sections (4) which connect the tread section (2) and the inner peripheral section (3). The connection sections (4), the inner surface (2b) of the tread section (2), and/or the outer surface (3a) of the inner peripheral section (3) is provided with a plurality of dimples (5).

Abstract: An airless tire includes a tread ring, a hub positioned on radially inner side of the ring, and a spoke structure including polymer material and connecting the ring and hub, the structure including spoke pieces arrayed in circumferential direction. Each spoke piece has a tread connecting portion, a hub connecting portion, and a spoke curved portion between the tread and hub connecting portions, each spoke piece has straight radial length LSb of at least 1.05 times straight radial length LSa and curved radial length LLb of at least 1.03 times LSb when positioned at 0° on coordinate around the tire axis where a perpendicular line extending vertically upward from the tire axis is set 0°, LSb is measured along the base line under base-load condition, LSa is measured along the base line under no-load condition, and LLb is measured along a curve of each spoke piece under the base-load condition.

Abstract: The present invention increases the bonding strength between a spoke and a tread ring and/or between a spoke and a hub to improve durability. An airless tire provided with a tread ring, a hub, and a spoke, wherein the spoke is integrally provided with: an outer annular portion of which the outer peripheral surface is bonded to the inner peripheral surface of the tread ring via a first adhesion layer; an inner annular portion of which the inner peripheral surface is bonded to the outer peripheral surface of the hub via a second adhesion layer, and a spoke portion which couples the inner and outer annular portions. The inner peripheral surface of the tread ring and/or the outer peripheral surface of the hub is composed of a roughened surface having a surface roughness (Ra) (arithmetic average roughness) of 3-1000 ?m or a surface roughness (Rz) (ten-point average roughness) of 30-5000 ?m.

Abstract: A spoke casting device for integrally cast-molding a spoke of an airless tire includes a casting mold including upper and lower molds which relatively moves between mold closed and mold open states in tire axial direction, a positioning device which concentrically positions a hub and a tread ring with respect to the cast mold, and a demolding device which pushes out an airless tire from the lower mold in the open state. The cast mold concentrically holds the ring and hub between the upper and lower molds and forms a cavity for casting a spoke made of a polymer material between the ring and hub held in the closed state, and the positioning device includes a first positioning device including an outer peripheral surface contact portion such that the contact portion makes contact with outer peripheral surface of the ring and positions the ring with respect to the cast mold.

Abstract: An electrode substrate of a PDP has an electrode pattern on a glass substrate and is made by baking and removing a resin binder in a conductive pattern composed of a conductive ink. The conductive pattern is formed by printing the conductive ink on the glass substrate by an intaglio offset printing method. The conductive ink is formed by dispersing or dissolving a metal powder and a resin binder into a solvent. A printing blanket used for printing the conductive pattern has a rubber layer on the surface of the printing blanket, and the rubber layer poses a volume increasing rate under 20% when the rubber is immersed in the solvent for 24 hours at 23° C. The printing blanket is heated such that a surface temperature TB of the printing blanket is about 40˜200° C., and then the printing blanket is cooled in a condition that the surface temperature TB (° C.) of the printing blanket with respect to a surface temperature TP (° C.) of the intaglio satisfies the equation |TP?TB|?5° C.

Abstract: An electrode substrate of a PDP has an electrode pattern on a glass substrate and is made by baking and removing a resin binder in a conductive pattern composed of a conductive ink. The conductive pattern is formed by printing the conductive ink on the glass substrate by an intaglio offset printing method. The conductive ink is formed by dispersing or dissolving a metal powder and a resin binder into a solvent. A printing blanket used for printing the conductive pattern has a rubber layer on the surface of the printing blanket, and the rubber layer poses a volume increasing rate under 20% when the rubber is immersed in the solvent for 24 hours at 23° C. The printing blanket is heated such that a surface temperature TB of the printing blanket is about 40˜200° C., and then the printing blanket is cooled in a condition that the surface temperature TB (° C.) of the printing blanket with respect to a surface temperature TP (° C.) of the intaglio satisfies the equation |TP?TB|?5° C.

Abstract: An electrode substrate of a PDP has an electrode pattern on a glass substrate and is made by baking and removing a resin binder in a conductive pattern composed of a conductive ink. The conductive pattern is formed by printing the conductive ink on the glass substrate by an intaglio offset printing method. The conductive ink is formed by dispersing or dissolving a metal powder and a resin binder into a solvent. A printing blanket used for printing the conductive pattern has a rubber layer on the surface of the printing blanket, and the rubber layer poses a volume increasing rate under 20% when the rubber is immersed in the solvent for 24 hours at 23° C. The printing blanket is heated such that a surface temperature TB of the printing blanket is about 40˜200° C., and then the printing blanket is cooled in a condition that the surface temperature TB (° C.) of the printing blanket with respect to a surface temperature TP (° C.) of the intaglio satisfies the equation |TP?TB|?5° C.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding plate having a glass substrate and a geometric pattern formed on the substrate, in which the geometric pattern contains (a) an inorganic filler selected from the group consisting of metals and metal oxides, and (b) a glass component having a softening point of about 200 to 700° C.

Abstract: An electromagnetic shielding plate having a glass substrate and a geometric pattern formed on the substrate, in which the geometric pattern contains (a) an inorganic filler selected from the group consisting of metals and metal oxides, and (b) a glass component having a softening point of about 200 to 700° C.

Abstract: An electrode substrate of a PDP has an electrode pattern on a glass substrate and is made by baking and removing a resin binder in a conductive pattern composed of a conductive ink. The conductive pattern is formed by printing the conductive ink on the glass substrate by an intaglio offset printing method. The conductive ink is formed by dispersing or dissolving a metal powder and a resin binder into a solvent. A printing blanket used for printing the conductive pattern has a rubber layer on the surface of the printing blanket, and the rubber layer poses a volume increasing rate under 20% when the rubber is immersed in the solvent for 24 hours at 23° C. The printing blanket is heated such that a surface temperature TB of the printing blanket is about 40˜200° C., and then the printing blanket is cooled in a condition that the surface temperature TB (° C.) of the printing blanket with respect to a surface temperature TP (° C.

Abstract: A method is furnished for producing a compressible layer for a printing blanket by heating a sheet-shaped intermediate layer of a rubber composition having a structure in which hollow microspheres are dispersed in matrix rubber for one to fifty minutes under certain defined conditions of vulcanizing pressure and temperature using a vulcanizer for applying heat and pressure in direct contact with the intermediate layer. The produced compressible layer exhibits superior compressibility and durability, is uniform in thickness and internal structure, and does not reduce the productivity of the printing blanket and increase the fabrication cost of the printing blanket.