Abstract: A polycarbonate foam that is a thermoplastic resin foam suitable for a backlight or a lighting box of an electric signboard, a luminaire, a display, and the like, has both high optical reflectivity and shape-retaining property, and has a short production cycle time. A polycarbonate foam contains a polycarbonate (A) and a fluorinated polycarbonate (B) and has a plurality of pores with a mean bubble diameter of 10 micrometers or less within. The foam is manufactured by a manufacturing method including holding a resin sheet containing the polycarbonate (A) and the fluorinated polycarbonate (B) in a pressurized inert gas atmosphere and incorporating the inert gas into the resin sheet, and heating the resin sheet incorporated with the inert gas to a temperature equal to or higher than a softening temperature of the polycarbonate under ambient pressure and foaming the resin sheet.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising a rosin compound, a polymer containing organosilyl ester groups, and an antifoulant as essential components is disclosed. This rosin-based coating composition gives a coating film which forms no residue layer on the surface thereof over long-term immersion, is hence free from physical defects such as cracks and peeling and capable of maintaining a sufficiently high rate of film erosion and preventing the attachment of marine organisms over a long period of time has satisfactory suitability for recoating, and has the satisfactory ability to prevent marine-organism attachment over the out-fitting period.

Abstract: A hydrolyzable self-polishing coating composition for use in preventing attachment of organisms to the surface of structures submerged in seawater, which comprises an anifoulant and a copolymer of an organosilyl group-containing monomer and a hemiacetal ester group-containing monomer.

Abstract: A disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which a cartridge container has a number of disc cartridges loaded internal sections without stacking of the disc cartridges by arraying the disc cartridges in one plane in a matrix configuration includes a rotation supporting substrate supporting a driving part supporting substrate carrying a disc rotation driving mechanism and an optical pickup approached to and separated from the disc cartridge, a stationary part support substrate rotatably supporting the rotation supporting substrate, a rotation driving mechanism for rotating the rotation supporting mechanism, and a driving part supporting substrate lift mechanism for bringing the disc rotation driving mechanism and the optical pickup towards the disc cartridge or separating them away from the disc cartridge.

Abstract: A coating composition contains as essential components one or more antifoulants and copolymer obtained from monomers mixture comprising monomer A represented by formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 each is a group selected from alkyl groups and aryl groups and may be the same or different, and X is an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group, a maleinoyloxy group, or a fumaroyloxy group and monomer B represented by formula (2):Y--(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.n --R.sup.4 (2)wherein R.sup.4 is an alkyl group or an aryl group, Y is an acryloyloxy group, a methacryloyloxy group, a maleinoyloxy group, or a fumaroyloxy group, and n is an integer of 1 to 25.

Abstract: The printer, in which a carriage carries a printing head and reciprocates along a guide rail, comprises a locking member attached in the vicinity of the end portion of the guide rail for locking the carriage temporarily, further comprises the locking member arranged to the position toward the locking member attached in the vicinity of the end portion of the guide rail. The locking member is attached to the lever which adjusts the print gap.

Abstract: A vessel having a pattern-molded bottom formed by a process of molding a pattern on the part of a flat blank which is to become the bottom of a vessel, holding the rest of the blank in such a manner that the molded pattern may not be affected by subsequent working of the part of the blank other than the pattern-molded part, and then forming the side wall of the vessel by drawing the rest of the blank.