Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a NOx removing device provided in an exhaust system of the engine and at least one fuel injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine. A temperature of the NOx removing device is detected and a regeneration process, which removes sulfur oxide accumulated in the NOx removing device, is performed. The regeneration process is performed by performing at least one post injection after performing a main injection by the at least one fuel injector to raise a temperature of the NOx removing device or by increasing a main injection amount of fuel to raise the temperature of the NOx removing device without performing the post injection. The exhaust gases are then controlled to flow into the NOx removing device in the reducing state.

Abstract: An active energy ray-curable ink composition having excellent adhesiveness to various base materials and satisfactory ejection stability is provided. An active energy ray-curable inkjet ink composition comprising polymerizable monomers, the polymerizable monomers comprising 60 to 98% by weight of monofunctional monomers, the monofunctional monomers comprising 25 to 65% by weight of isobornyl acrylate and 12.5 to 69% by weight of N-vinyl caprolactam based on the total amount of the polymerizable monomers.

Abstract: In an airbag-equipped steering wheel, a plurality of horn switch mechanisms assembled to a bag holder each have a securing pin, which is inserted into a corresponding one of through holes formed in a metal core. A clip is engaged with a locking groove of each securing pin, so that each horn switch mechanism is fastened to the metal core. The through holes include one or more normal through holes that restrict inclination of the corresponding securing pins, and a special through hole that has an inclination permitting portion. The inclination permitting portion permits the corresponding securing pin to be inclined about the corresponding clip 13 serving as a fulcrum. In the special through hole, the securing pin is permitted to be inclined about the clip serving as a fulcrum only when the clips are disengaged from the securing pin in all the normal through holes.

Abstract: A horn switch mechanism 15 has a securing pin 31 serving as a support member, a movable member 32 serving as an insulating portion, a compression coil spring 35 serving as an urging member, and a contact terminal 34 serving as a movable contact. The securing pin 31 is fixed to a metal core 12 of a steering wheel body 11 and supports a bag holder 21 in such a manner that the bag holder 21 selectively proceeds toward and retreats from the metal core 12. The movable member 32 is arranged between the securing pin 31 and the bag holder 21 and electrically insulates the securing pin 31 and the bag holder 21 from each other. The coil spring 35 urges the bag holder 21 away from the metal core 12. The contact terminal 34 moves together with the bag holder 21. When the bag holder 21 moves toward the metal core 12 against the urging force of the compression coil spring 35, the contact terminal 34 contacts the securing pin 31 and permits conduction between the contact terminal 34 and the securing pin 31.

Abstract: A folded airbag is accommodated between a bag holder, to which horn switch mechanisms are secured, and a pad secured to the bag holder. The horn switch mechanisms are installed by being inserted in attachment holes formed in the bag holder. The pad has switch support portions for supporting the horn switch mechanisms.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nanoporous fiber being substantially free from coarse pores and having homogeneously dispersed nanopores, unlike conventional porous fibers. A porous fiber has pores each having a diameter of 100 nm or less, in which the area ratio of pores each having a diameter of 200 nm or more to the total cross section of the fiber is 1.5% or less, and the pores are unconnected pores, or a porous fiber has pores each having a diameter of 100 nm or less, in which the area ratio of pores each having a diameter of 200 nm or more to the total cross section of the fiber is 1.5% or less, the pores are connected pores, and the fiber has a strength of 1.0 cN/dtex or more.

Abstract: A method comprising subjecting fuel to combustion while the combustion atmosphere of the fuel is oscillated periodically and alternately between rich and lean conditions, leading the exhaust gas formed to a catalytic reactor, and bringing the exhaust gas into contact with a catalyst in the catalytic reactor to conduct catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides contained in the exhaust gas, wherein the catalyst comprises as catalyst components: (A) an oxide catalyst component A comprising (a) ceria or (b) praseodymium oxide or (c) a mixture of oxides and/or a composite oxide of at least two elements selected from cerium, zirconium, praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, samarium, gadolinium and lanthanum; and (B) (d) a noble metal catalyst component B selected from platinum, rhodium, palladium and oxides thereof; under an oxygen concentration adjusted to the range of 0.1-1.0% at the exit of the catalytic reactor under the rich conditions.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of supplying a just enough amount of reducing agent to a NOx catalyst, thereby reducing exhaust emission and improving fuel economy. The device includes a three-way catalyst, a NOx catalyst provided downstream of the three-way catalyst, and an ECU. The ECU carries out rich spike control such that exhaust gases flowing into the NOx catalyst form a reducing atmosphere. During the control, the ECU calculates a reducing agent consumption amount of reducing agent in the exhaust gases consumed by the three-way catalyst, calculates a cumulative reducing agent amount as a total amount of reducing agent supplied to the NOx catalyst, depending on the reducing agent consumption amount, and terminates the control when the cumulative reducing agent amount becomes larger than a predetermined value.

Abstract: To separate resin molded parts that are used for a push button switch member with less light leakage from the side faces and less trouble in key operation, easily, a resin molded body comprises one or more resin molded parts for a push button switch member, a frame surrounding the outside of the resin molded parts, one or more gates connecting a plurality of the resin molded parts each other or the resin molded part to the frame and one or more runners crossing the longitudinal direction of the gates, wherein the gates are connected at the back faces of the resin molded parts not to be coated with light shielding paint, and wherein the runners are connected to the gates on the same surfaces as the resin molded parts are connected to and are connecting the opposing sides of the frame.

Abstract: To separate resin molded parts that are used for a push button switch member with less light leakage from the side faces and less trouble in key operation, easily, a resin molded body comprises one or more resin molded parts for a push button switch member, a frame surrounding the outside of the resin molded parts, one or more gates connecting a plurality of the resin molded parts each other or the resin molded part to the frame and one or more runners crossing the longitudinal direction of the gates, wherein the gates are connected at the back faces of the resin molded parts not to be coated with light shielding paint, and wherein the runners are connected to the gates on the same surfaces as the resin molded parts are connected to and are connecting the opposing sides of the frame.

Abstract: An exhaust emission control device which is capable of supplying a just enough amount of reducing agent to a NOx catalyst while causing the amount of reducing agent consumed in an upstream catalyst to be reflected thereon. A NOx catalyst for trapping NOx and reducing NOx to change the same into harmless ingredients in a reducing atmosphere is disposed downstream of a catalyst. Reducing agent is supplied upstream of the catalyst to cause the NOx catalyst to perform a NOx-reducing action. The amount of oxygen occluded in the catalyst is calculated. During reduction control, according to the oxygen occlusion amount, the amount of reducing agent oxidized and consumed in the catalyst is calculated. According to the reducing agent consumption amount, the amount of reducing agent supplied to the NOx catalyst is calculated. The reduction control is terminated based on the reducing agent supply amount.

Abstract: The invention provides a catalyst for catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust gases wherein fuel is supplied and subjected to combustion under periodic rich/lean conditions and the resulting exhaust gases are brought into contact therewith, which catalyst comprises: (A) a catalyst component A comprising (c) ceria or (d) praseodymium oxide or (e) an oxide and/or a composite oxide of at least two elements selected from the group consisting of cerium, zirconium, praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, samarium, gadolinium and lanthanum; (B) a catalyst component B comprising (d) a noble metal catalyst component selected from the group consisting of platinum, rhodium, palladium and oxides thereof and (e) a carrier; and (C) a catalyst component C comprising (f) a solid acid, and (g) a solid acid supporting an oxide of at least one element selected from the group consisting of vanadium, tungsten, molybdenum, copper, iron, cobalt, nickel and manganese.

Abstract: To separate resin molded parts that are used for a push button switch member with less light leakage from the side faces and less trouble in key operation, easily, a resin molded body comprises one or more resin molded parts for a push button switch member, a frame surrounding the outside of the resin molded parts, one or more gates connecting a plurality of the resin molded parts each other or the resin molded part to the frame and one or more runners crossing the longitudinal direction of the gates, wherein the gates are connected at the back faces of the resin molded parts not to be coated with light shielding paint, and wherein the runners are connected to the gates on the same surfaces as the resin molded parts are connected to and are connecting the opposing sides of the frame.

Abstract: Polyester fibers comprising a polyester resin composition which contains carbon black and comprises trimethylene terephthalate units as the main repeating structural units, and having an average resistivity (P) of 1.0×1012 [?/cm] or lower; and a polyester textile product at least part of which is made of the polyester fibers. The polyester fibers have high conductivity and are highly excellent in conductivity stability to humidity fluctuations. The textile product comprising the polyester fibers has excellent performances, and examples thereof include a fibrous brush.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device including a first field effect transistor having a gate insulating film formed over a first element forming region of a main surface of a semiconductor substrate; and a second field effect transistor having a gate insulating film formed over a second element forming region of the main surface of the semiconductor substrate and made thinner than the gate insulating film of the first field effect transistor.

Abstract: A phospholipid derivative, utilizable for modification of liposomes and the like, which is a copolymer containing, as essential component units, a component unit A represented by the formula (1), a component unit B represented by the formula (2A) and/or the formula (2B), and a component unit C represented by the formula (3) [R1 and R2 represent hydrogen atom or methyl group, provided that R1 and R2 do not simultaneously represent methyl group; R3 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; AO represents an oxyalkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; m represents an average molar number of the added oxyalkylene groups and is a number in the range represented as 4?m?100; R4 represents hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or acyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R5CO and R6CO represent an acyl group having 8 to 24 carbon atoms; R7 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; and X and Y represent hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, ammonium or an organic ammonium

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device and a method of manufacturing the same. The surface of a substrate of an active region surrounded by an element isolation trench is horizontally flat in the center portion of the active region but falls toward the side wall of the element isolation trench in the shoulder portion of the active region. This inclined surface contains two inclined surfaces having different inclination angles. The first inclined surface near the center portion of the active region is relatively steep and the second inclined surface near the side wall of the element isolation trench is gentler than the first inclined surface. The surface of the substrate in the shoulder portion of the active region is wholly rounded and has no angular portion.

Abstract: A phospholipid derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein [PG]k represents a residue of polyglycerin having a polymerization degree of k, wherein k is 2 to 50, R1CO and R2CO independently represent an acyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms, symbol “a” independently represents an integer of 0 to 5, symbol “b” independently represents 0 or 1, M represents hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, an ammonium, or an organic ammonium, and k1, k2, and k3 represent numbers satisfying the following conditions: 1?k1?(k+2)/2, 0?k2, and k1+k2+k3=k+2. The phospholipid derivative is highly safe for living bodies and can be suitably utilized in drug delivery systems such as liposome, and the like.

Abstract: The invention provides a catalyst and a catalyst structure for catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides contained in exhaust gas wherein fuel is supplied and subjected to combustion under periodic rich/lean conditions and the resulting exhaust gases are brought into contact therewith, which catalyst comprises: an outer catalyst layer comprising an outer catalyst component A which comprises at least one selected from a solid acid, and a solid acid supporting oxides and/or ions of at least one element selected from vanadium, tungsten, molybdenum, copper, iron, cobalt, nickel and manganese, and an inner catalyst layer comprising an inner catalyst component which comprises at least one noble metal catalyst component B selected from platinum, rhodium, palladium and an oxide thereof and a catalyst component C comprising ceria or praseodymium oxide or a mixture of oxides and/or a composite oxide of at least two elements selected from cerium, zirconium, praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, samarium, gadolinium and lant

Abstract: A phospholipid derivative represented by the formula (1) (Z represents a residue of a compound having 3 to 10 hydroxyl groups; AO represents an oxyalkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; R1CO and R2CO represent an acyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms; X represents hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, ammonium or an organic ammonium; “a” represents an integer of 0 to 4; “b” represents 0 or 1; Q represents hydrogen atom or methyl group; m represents an average number of moles of the oxyalkylene group added; and m, k1, k2, and k3 are numbers satisfying the following conditions: 3?m?200, 9?m×(k1+k2+k3)?1000, 1?k1?2, 0?k2?9 and 0?k3?9, and 3?k1+k2+k3?10), which is highly safe for living bodies, and is suitably used for solubilization and dispersion of physiologically active substances and the like, or in the fields of drug delivery systems such as liposomes and cosmetics.