Abstract: There is provided an automobile weather strip light in weight and excellent in appearance of the surface thereof, and also having sufficient hardness and strength. The automobile weather strip comprises a fitting base and a bulb shape, wherein the fitting base is formed of a dense rubber material with porosity containing air bubbles not more than 100 ?m in average diameter, obtained by mixing a predetermined amount of thermal expansion microcapsules each having particles 3 to 20 ?m (preferably, 5 to 15 ?m) in average diameter, an expansion start temperature in a range of 110 to 150° C., a maximum expansion temperature in a range of 130 to 150° C., and a shell-wall made of acrylonitride copolymer to be subsequently foamed in a vulcanization process.

Abstract: A soldering paste for light beam-heating soldering containing a flux which contains 2 to 8 % by weight of a thixotropic agent having a melting point of 140.degree. to 150.degree. C., 1.8 to 3.0 % by weight of an activator containing cyclohexylamine hydrobromide, 40 to 50 % by weight of a rosin component and 40 to 50 % by weight of a solvent; and spherical solder particles having a particle size of 250 to 400 mesh and an oxygen content of not larger than 200 ppm, in which a content of the flux in the soldering paste is from 9 to 13 % by weight and the soldering paste has a thixotropy index of 7 to 8.

Abstract: A controller of an image recording apparatus controls an initializing process for adjusting and appropriately positioning tip ends of the set recording sheets by transporting the recording sheets in a reverse direction until tip ends thereof are detected. After the tip end of one recording sheet is detected this recording sheet is transported in a forward direction until the tip end thereof reaches a position on the downstream side of a cutter, and a tip portion of this first recording sheet is cut by the cutter. This recording sheet is then transported in a reverse direction until a cut end of this recording sheet reaches a first predetermined position. After the tip end of the other recording sheet is detected this recording sheet is transported in the forward direction until the tip end thereof reaches a position on the downstream side of the cutter, and a tip portion of this recording sheet is cut by the cutter.