Abstract: A rubber composition and a tire that can ensure the balance between the vulcanization speed and the foaming speed are provided. A rubber composition comprises: a diene-based rubber component; a foaming agent generating carbon dioxide; a fatty acid metal salt; and urea, wherein a content of the foaming agent is 0.1 parts to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass the diene-based rubber component, a total content of the fatty acid metal salt and the urea is 0.1 parts to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass the diene-based rubber component, and a mass ratio of the fatty acid metal salt and the urea is 1:0.5 to 1:3.9.

Abstract: This invention relates to a rubber composition capable of improving a steering stability on a wet road and a low fuel consumption of a tire, and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising 5 to 60 parts by mass of a low-molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-conjugated diene compound copolymer (B) having an aromatic vinyl compound content of 5 to 80% by mass, a vinyl bond content in a conjugated diene compound portion of 10 to 80% by mass and a weight average molecular weight as measured through a gel permeation chromatography and converted to polystyrene of 5,000 to 200,000 and 20 to 90 parts by mass of a filler (C) based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component (A) composed of at least one of natural rubber and synthetic diene-based rubbers, in which 50 to 90% by mass of the filler (C) is silica.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to prepare a thin film transistor fitted with a resin substrate by lowering a process temperature during formation of an oxide semiconductor, and further makes it possible to improve manufacturing efficiency and reduce variations in thin film transistor performance. Disclosed is a thin film transistor of the present invention possessing a semiconductor containing metal oxide, the semiconductor comprising a coating film made from a solution or a dispersion of a precursor, wherein the metal oxide contains indium as a first metal element, gallium or aluminum as a second metal element, and zinc or tin as a third metal element, and a ratio of the third metal element to total metal elements in the metal oxide is 25 at % or less, or 0 at %.

Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire characterized by that a tread surface roughness (Ra 75) after running 3000 km on a paved road which is measured based on JIS B0601 is 10 to 100 ?m and that a whole sipe length per 1 cm2 of a ground contact area on the above tread surface is 1.0 to 4.0 cm.

Abstract: Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising an aluminum support and provided thereon, an image formation layer containing a cyclic ureide moiety-containing phenolic resin in which a phenolic resin has a cyclic ureide moiety through a linkage group, the cyclic ureide moiety being derived from a cyclic ureide and the linkage group being derived from a linkage compound having both a monohalogenated alkyl group and one selected from a vinyl group, a carbonyl group, an ester group and a sulfonic acid ester group.

Abstract: This invention relates to a rubber composition capable of improving a steering stability on a wet road and a low fuel consumption of a tire, and more particularly to a rubber composition comprising 5 to 60 parts by mass of a low-molecular weight aromatic vinyl compound-conjugated diene compound copolymer (B) having an aromatic vinyl compound content of 5 to 80% by mass, a vinyl bond content in a conjugated diene compound portion of 10 to 80% by mass and a weight average molecular weight as measured through a gel permeation chromatography and converted to polystyrene of 5,000 to 200,000 and 20 to 90 parts by mass of a filler (C) based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component (A) composed of at least one of natural rubber and synthetic diene-based rubbers, in which 50 to 90% by mass of the filler (C) is silica.

Abstract: Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising an aluminum support and provided thereon, a lower layer and an upper layer in that order, wherein the lower layer contains a first alkali soluble resin, the upper layer contains a second alkali soluble resin and a light-to-heat conversion material, the second alkali soluble resin being a modified novolak resin having in the side chain a heterocyclic ring group containing both —(C?O)— and —NH— in the ring or a ureido group represented by the following formula (1), and wherein at least one of the upper and lower layers contains a third alkali soluble resin which is a modified acryl resin having in the side chain a heterocyclic ring group containing both —(C?O)— and —NH— in the ring or a ureido group represented by the following formula (1), —NHCONHR ??Formula (1)

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate material is disclosed, comprising a flexible support having thereon a hydrophilic layer and an image forming layer, wherein the flexible support having the hydrophilic layer exhibits a transmission density of 0.5 to 1.2, and the outermost surface of an unexposed area of the image forming layer exhibiting a glossiness of 0.1 to 10. A printing method is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising a plastic support and provided thereon, a subbing layer containing a water-soluble resin, a hydrophilic layer containing metal oxide particles with an average particle diameter of from 3 to 100 nm, and an image formation layer containing heat melting particles or heat fusible particles in that order, the planographic printing plate material being in the form of roll, wherein a dry coating amount of the water-soluble resin in the subbing layer is in the range of from 0.001 g/m2 to 3.0 g/m2.

Abstract: Disclosed are a planographic printing plate material and a printing process, the planographic printing plate material comprising a plastic film sheet support and provided thereon, a hydrophilic layer and an image formation layer in that order, wherein the image formation layer contains extender pigment.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate material is disclosed, comprising a flexible support having thereon a hydrophilic layer and an image forming layer, wherein the flexible support having the hydrophilic layer exhibits a transmission density of 0.5 to 1.2, and the outermost surface of an unexposed area of the image forming layer exhibiting a glossiness of 0.1 to 10. A printing method is also disclosed.

Abstract: Field magnets are attached to an inner periphery of a stator core, which defines a rotor through hole. The stator core has a plurality of recesses open to the rotor through hole. Each recess faces magnet end portions of the field magnets. The recess surface of the recess is away from the surface AC of the magnet end portion and set back toward an outer periphery of the stator core from a rear surface AD of the magnet end portion.