Abstract: An oil-resistant agent containing a modified natural product which is a bio-based compound having at least one carboxyl group and in which a hydroxyl group of a carboxyl group is substituted with an R group, or a carboxyl group is substituted with an Ra group. R group: —X—R1 or —X-D-X?—R1. Ra group: wherein X is a direct bond, —O—, —NR11—, or —S—, and R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1-40 carbon atoms, or a polysiloxane, D is an alkylene group having 1-10 carbon atoms, X? is —C(?O)—O—, —O—(?O)—, —C(?O)—NR12—, or —NR12—C(?O)— (where, R11 and R12 are each hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1-40 carbon atoms). Also disclosed is a textile product, an oil-resistant paper, a food packaging material or a food container each including the oil-resistant agent, as well as a method of treating paper with the oil-resistant agent.

Abstract: A rotary connector apparatus includes a stator, a rotator, and an adjustment structure. The stator is configured to be attached to a vehicle body. The rotator is provided rotatably about a rotation axis with respect to the stator. The stator and the rotator define a cable housing space provided to surround the rotation axis. The adjustment structure is configured to allow the rotation axis to move with respect to the vehicle body in a state where the stator is attached to the vehicle body. The adjustment structure includes a coupling structure configured to couple the stator to the vehicle body. The coupling structure supports the stator movably with respect to the vehicle body to change an angle of the rotation axis with respect to the vehicle body in a state where the coupling structure couples the stator to the vehicle body.

Abstract: A can lid is provided for excellence in an explosion-proof function and a suitability for a hammering inspection. A buckling-inducing section that is easily deformed angularly is formed on a plurality of sites in a circumferential portion of a panel section. A score line intersects with a virtual line passing through a center of the panel section and a center of the buckling-inducing section. End portions of the score line are situated closer to the center of the panel section than a virtual boundary line extending perpendicular to the virtual line. A circular depression is formed at the center of the panel section. A slant wall section is formed between the buckling-inducing section and an inner side wall, and the slant wall section is joined to the inner side wall through a curved portion.

Abstract: A can container includes a can lid including a disk-shaped panel portion in which a circular score line defining a region for forming a drinking opening is formed on an outer peripheral edge side, a groove portion connected to the outer peripheral edge of the panel portion and recessed from the panel portion; and a can body including a cylindrical body portion, a fixing portion fixed to the flange portion, and a tapered portion provided between the body portion and the fixing portion and having a diameter reduced from the body portion toward the fixing portion, wherein a ratio between a diameter of the score line and an inner diameter of the body portion is 0.6 to 0.8.

Abstract: A battery case includes a mounting surface formed into a desired shape to place a sealing plate stably thereon. The battery case includes: an open box-shaped case body holding components of a battery; and a sealing plate that is integrated with the case body to close an opening of the case body. A stepped portion on which the sealing plate is placed is formed on an inner wall surface of the case body. The stepped portion includes: a mounting surface on which the sealing plate is placed; an opposed surface opposed to a periphery of the sealing plate placed on the mounting surface; and a depressed corner depressed outwardly from the opposed surface between the mounting surface and the opposed surface.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a plate member, in which a strip material can be positioned with respect to a die all through stamping operations using a pilot hole formed in an initial phase of the stamping operations. The plate member is manufactured by a press machine in which a progressive stamping die having a plurality of stations is placed. The manufacturing method comprises: forming an oval pilot hole 14 in an uncoiled strip 13; and stamping the uncoiled strip 13 by a plurality of operations while bringing a pilot pin 17 into contact with an inner edge of the pilot hole 14 at the operation before the pilot hole 14 is displaced, and at the operation after the pilot hole 14 is displaced.

Abstract: A can lid tab includes a flat plate-shaped attachment portion including a rivet hole to be attached to a rivet portion provided in a panel portion of a can lid, the attachment portion being in contact with the panel portion; a tip portion continuous with the attachment portion; and a finger hook portion formed on a side opposite to the tip portion across the attachment portion, at least an upper surface on a rear end side of the finger hook portion being inclined downward from the tip portion side toward the rear end side with respect to the attachment portion.

Abstract: A can lid includes a score line provided on an outer peripheral edge side of a disk-shaped panel portion; a rivet portion provided in the panel portion and adjacent to an inner side of the score line in a radial direction; a tab including an attachment portion including a rivet hole to be attached to the rivet portion, a tip portion continuous with the attachment portion, and a finger hook portion formed on a side opposite to the tip portion across the attachment portion; and an auxiliary score line formed in the panel portion and including a first part and a second part, the first part extending in an arc shape on an inner side of the rivet portion in a radial direction of the panel portion, the second part being continuous with the first part.

Abstract: An optical component having an NA conversion function which enables arraying without lowering a product yield, with small size and a simple assembly process. There is provided an optical component using a capillary type lens array in which plural graded index lenses each of which is surrounded with glass capillary in all circumferential directions, in which a refractive index distribution constant of the plurality of graded index lenses at one end of the optical component in an optical axis direction of the graded index lens is smaller than a refractive index distribution constant of the plurality of graded index lenses at other end of the optical component in the optical axis direction of the graded index lens.

Abstract: A sealing plate including an explosion-proof valve whose opening pressure can be set easily, and whose groove will not be not ruptured by a repeated stress before reaching an opening pressure. The explosion-proof valve including a thin plate portion thinner than a plate; a valve portion formed by partially projecting the thin plate portion in a thickness direction to enhance a bending rigidity; and a groove drawn as a boundary between the valve portion and the thin plate portion to serves as a score line. A rupturable portion that is ruptured after the groove is ruptured is formed between a straight line and a folding line. The valve portion is bent along the folding line to open the explosion-proof valve when the rupturable portion is ruptured after the groove is ruptured.

Abstract: A can lid is provided for excellence in an explosion-proof function and a suitability for a hammering inspection. A buckling-inducing section that is easily deformed angularly is formed on a plurality of sites in a circumferential portion of a panel section. A score line intersects with a virtual line passing through a center of the panel section and a center of the buckling-inducing section. End portions of the score line are situated closer to the center of the panel section than a virtual boundary line extending perpendicular to the virtual line. A circular depression is formed at the center of the panel section. A slant wall section is formed between the buckling-inducing section and an inner side wall, and the slant wall section is joined to the inner side wall through a curved portion.

Abstract: A sealing plate including an explosion-proof valve whose opening pressure can be set easily, and whose groove will not be not ruptured by a repeated stress before reaching an opening pressure. The explosion-proof valve including a thin plate portion thinner than a plate; a valve portion formed by partially projecting the thin plate portion in a thickness direction to enhance a bending rigidity; and a groove drawn as a boundary between the valve portion and the thin plate portion to serves as a score line. A rupturable portion that is ruptured after the groove is ruptured is formed between a straight line and a folding line. The valve portion is bent along the folding line to open the explosion-proof valve when the rupturable portion is ruptured after the groove is ruptured.

Abstract: An optical component having an NA conversion function which enables arraying without lowering a product yield, with small size and a simple assembly process. There is provided an optical component using a capillary type lens array in which plural graded index lenses each of which is surrounded with glass capillary in all circumferential directions, in which a refractive index distribution constant of the plurality of graded index lenses at one end of the optical component in an optical axis direction of the graded index lens is smaller than a refractive index distribution constant of the plurality of graded index lenses at other end of the optical component in the optical axis direction of the graded index lens.

Abstract: Provided are a pretensioner, a retractor, and a seat belt device that can achieve weight reduction of a device by improving slidability of a power transmission member used for the pretensioner. A pretensioner includes a drive wheel for rotating the spool, and a power transmission unit for transmitting power to the drive wheel in an emergency. The power transmission unit includes a power transmission member for rotating the drive wheel, a pipe that contains the power transmission member, a gas generator for supplying a working gas into the pipe, and a housing that defines a passage for the power transmission member on an outer periphery of the drive wheel. The housing has a sliding member that is disposed at an outlet part of the pipe and that reduces frictional force between the housing and the power transmission member.

Abstract: An example system includes: a data acquisition unit for performing near field communication with a data storage medium having a near field communication function and acquiring character data stored in the data storage medium; an information processing unit for performing information processing to control a character corresponding to the character data, which has been acquired by the data acquisition unit, as a non player character; and a data changing unit for changing the character data depending on a processing result of the information processing unit.

Abstract: Provided is a pretensioner that can be easily and accurately assembled and manufactured, a seat belt retractor, and a seat belt apparatus provided with the seat belt retractor. A pretensioner has at least a gas generator for generating gas in the event of an emergency, a case, a pipe mounted to the case, a predetermined number of drive transmission members that are movably provided in the pipe and moved by receiving gas pressure to transmit force for rotating the spool in the seat-belt retracting direction, a piston that is movably provided in the pipe and moved by receiving gas pressure to push the drive transmission members, a ring gear that is at least rotatably provided in the case, has, on the outer periphery thereof, a plurality of pressed portions pressed by the drive transmission members, and rotates the spool by the pressing force, and an elastic member attached to the gas generator side of the piston.

Abstract: Provided are a pretensioner, a retractor, and a seat belt device that can achieve weight reduction of a device by improving slidability of a power transmission member used for the pretensioner. A pretensioner includes a drive wheel for rotating the spool, and a power transmission unit for transmitting power to the drive wheel in an emergency. The power transmission unit includes a power transmission member for rotating the drive wheel, a pipe that contains the power transmission member, a gas generator for supplying a working gas into the pipe, and a housing that defines a passage for the power transmission member on an outer periphery of the drive wheel. The housing has a sliding member that is disposed at an outlet part of the pipe and that reduces frictional force between the housing and the power transmission member.

Abstract: An example computer-readable storage medium stores an information processing program, and this information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus 10A to function as a close proximity communication unit 13 and an information processing unit 12. The close proximity communication unit 13 receives communication history data indicating a history of communication of application data by an information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication from the information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication. The information processing unit 12 performs predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the close proximity communication unit 13 as a parameter.

Abstract: An example system includes: a data acquisition unit for performing near field communication with a data storage medium having a near field communication function and acquiring character data stored in the data storage medium; an information processing unit for performing information processing to control a character corresponding to the character data, which has been acquired by the data acquisition unit, as a non player character; and a data changing unit for changing the character data depending on a processing result of the information processing unit.

Abstract: An information processing system 100 includes an information processing apparatus 10 and a data providing server 20 that are capable of communication with each other over an IP network 40. The information processing apparatus 10 includes a storage unit 11 storing an integrated application program which includes a plurality of optional application programs that are independent of each other and which provides a cooperation function for the plurality of optional application programs. The data providing server 20 includes a storage unit 21 storing content data that is to be used by the optional application program. The information processing apparatus 10 includes a communication unit 13 for acquiring the content data from the data providing server 20.