Abstract: A tubular woven fabric is useful as a transport hose for a fluid or a powder, as a protective hose for linear bodies such as wires, cables and conduits, as a tubular filter, or as a base material of a vascular prosthesis. The tubular woven fabric includes warp yarns and weft yarns interwoven with each other, the tubular woven fabric having an outer diameter with a variation of within 10% along the warp direction and satisfying the formula: (L2?L1)/L1?0.1.

Abstract: A shaping material contains a crystalline alicyclic structure-containing resin. More specifically, the crystalline alicyclic structure-containing resin in the shaping material has a melting point of 200° C. or higher, and content of chlorobenzene-soluble components in the shaping material is 1,000 ppm or less as an o-dichlorobenzene-equivalent value based on gas chromatography analysis with o-dichlorobenzene as a standard substance.

Abstract: A lens barrel is provided with: a first tube; a second tube arranged on one side among the radial outside or inside of the first tube and having a linear grove along an optical axis; a fixing member provided to the first tube; a movable member that is movably held by the fixing member and has a first protruding section arranged in the linear groove; and an elastic section arranged between the fixing member and the movable member, wherein the first protruding section abuts against one side surface of the linear groove by means of the elastic section.

Abstract: A nerve regeneration-inducing tube includes a cylindrical body, and a plurality of fibers that are housed in the body and extend in a longitudinal direction of the body. At least a part of the fibers is a modified cross-section fiber that has an axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the fibers, and at least three protrusions that continue in the longitudinal direction of the fibers, protrude from the axis, and have a height of 0.5 ?m or more from the axis.

Abstract: Provided is a tubular fabric that has a homogeneous structure along its outer circumference and excellent shape-stability and that is useful as hoses for transferring a fluid or powder or for protecting linear materials such as a wire, a cable, and a conduit, tubular filters, and medical base materials such as an artificial blood vessel. The tubular fabric includes a wall part that is woven by interlacing a warp yarn and a weft yarn and that has a double weave structure, a weft yarn in an outer layer and a weft yarn in an inner layer being not intersected with each other. The tubular fabric preferably has a circularity c of 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less, the circularity c being represented by the following equation of an outer diameter b perpendicular to an outer diameter a with respect to the outer diameter a, the outer diameter a being obtained by measuring a location corresponding to a fabric width A in weaving of the tubular fabric. Circularity c=a/b.

Abstract: A medical base material for an indwelling cardiovascular device in which a unique knitted structure made of multifilaments containing ultra-fine fibers can maintain the antithrombotic property through the early endothelialization has improved storage property in a sheath catheter and mechanical strength. The medical base material includes a knitted fabric made of multifilaments containing 30 wt % or more of ultra-fine fibers having a single thread diameter of 1 ?m to 10 ?m, and heparin, a heparin derivative, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which is chemically bound to the surface of the ultra-fine fibers, wherein: the knitted fabric has a basis weight of 5 mg/cm2 to 20 mg/cm2, a thickness of 200 ?m or less, and a water permeability of 1000 mL/min/cm2 to 10,000 mL/min/cm2 at a pressure of 120 mmHg.

Abstract: A precombustion chamber gas engine includes a main-chamber forming portion forming a main combustion chamber, a precombustion-chamber forming portion forming a precombustion chamber communicating with the main combustion chamber via a plurality of nozzle holes, and an ignition device disposed in the precombustion chamber and having an ignition portion spaced from a main chamber central axis of the main combustion chamber at a predetermined distance. In a plan view, the precombustion chamber has a near-ignition region including the ignition portion and a far-ignition region opposite to the near-ignition region separated by a borderline passing through a precombustion chamber central axis of the precombustion chamber and perpendicular to a straight line passing through the precombustion chamber central axis and the ignition portion.

Abstract: A pipe erroneous assembly preventing structure includes a pipe and a case. The pipe includes a stay in which a stay-side abutting portion and a stay claw portion intersect with each other in an L shape. The case includes a hole forming portion; a first protrusion portion provided in the hole forming portion; a case-side abutting portion which is recessed in the first protrusion portion and to which the stay-side abutting portion of the stay abuts, and a second protrusion portion protruding from the case wall surface. In a case where a length of the stay claw portion in the insertion direction is set to Ls, a distance from the case wall surface to the case-side abutting portion is set to Lg, and a distance from the case wall surface to the second protrusion portion is set to Lp, Lg?Lp<Ls?Lg is satisfied.

Abstract: A precombustion chamber gas engine includes a main-chamber forming portion forming a main combustion chamber, a precombustion-chamber forming portion forming a precombustion chamber communicating with the main combustion chamber via nozzle holes, and an ignition device disposed in the precombustion chamber and having an ignition portion spaced from the main chamber central axis at a predetermined distance. In a plan view, the precombustion chamber has a near-ignition region including the ignition portion and a far-ignition region opposite to the near-ignition region separated by a borderline passing through the precombustion chamber central axis and perpendicular to a straight line passing through the precombustion chamber central axis and the ignition portion. The cross-sectional area of a specific near nozzle hole which is at least one nozzle hole in the near-ignition region is smaller than the cross-sectional area of a specific far nozzle hole which is at least one nozzle hole in the far-ignition region.

Abstract: A cylindrical body for an implant is capable of maintaining a high patency rate by achieving a good antithrombogenicity, a low swelling property and a low Young's modulus. A cylindrical body for an implant includes: a cylindrical substrate having an elongation rate in the longitudinal direction, as measured under a tensile load of 20 N, of from 5 to 100%; and a block copolymer composed of a polyalkylene glycol block(s) and a polyhydroxyalkanoic acid block(s); wherein the ratio of the mass of the polyalkylene glycol with respect to the total mass of the block copolymer is 5 to 25%; and a film composed of the block copolymer has a Young's modulus of 200 MPa or less.

Abstract: A precombustion chamber gas engine includes a main-chamber forming portion forming a main combustion chamber, a precombustion-chamber forming portion forming a precombustion chamber communicating with the main combustion chamber via a plurality of nozzle holes, and an ignition device disposed in the precombustion chamber and having an ignition portion spaced from a main chamber central axis of the main combustion chamber at a predetermined distance. In a plan view, the precombustion chamber has a near-ignition region including the ignition portion and a far-ignition region opposite to the near-ignition region separated by a borderline passing through a precombustion chamber central axis of the precombustion chamber and perpendicular to a straight line passing through the precombustion chamber central axis and the ignition portion.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire and a method for producing the pneumatic tire, wherein the pneumatic tire includes a generally string-shaped adhesive sealant, the sealant is continuously and spirally attached at least to the inner periphery of the tire that corresponds to a tread portion, the sealant has a wider portion on at least one of the longitudinal ends thereof, and the wider portion has a width larger than that of the longitudinally adjoining portion.

Abstract: In a disclosed method, etching a film by using plasma of a first processing gas and etching the film by using plasma of a second processing gas are alternately repeated. The first processing gas and the second processing gas each include a fluorocarbon gas. In etching the film by using the plasma of the first processing gas and etching the film by using the plasma of the second processing gas, radio frequency power is used to attract ions to the substrate. The first processing gas further includes an additive gas that is a source for nitrogen or sulfur and fluorine. In the first processing gas, the flow rate of the additive gas is smaller than the flow rate of the fluorocarbon gas.

Abstract: Provided is a tubular fabric that has a homogeneous structure along its outer circumference and excellent shape-stability and that is useful as hoses for transferring a fluid or powder or for protecting linear materials such as a wire, a cable, and a conduit, tubular filters, and medical base materials such as an artificial blood vessel. The tubular fabric includes a wall part that is woven by interlacing a warp yarn and a weft yarn and that has a double weave structure, a weft yarn in an outer layer and a weft yarn in an inner layer being not intersected with each other. The tubular fabric preferably has a circularity c of 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less, the circularity c being represented by the following equation of an outer diameter b perpendicular to an outer diameter a with respect to the outer diameter a, the outer diameter a being obtained by measuring a location corresponding to a fabric width A in weaving of the tubular fabric.

Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire having sufficient sealing performance. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including a sealant layer located radially inside an innerliner, the sealant layer being formed by applying a sealant to the inner periphery of a tire from which mold release agents have been removed.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a resonator attached to the inner periphery of the tire, the resonator including a tube with an opening, and a cavity connected to the tube. The pneumatic tire further includes s a tread portion and each resonator faces the tread portion, the tread portion includes at least one circumferential longitudinal groove, and the opening is provided to penetrate a circumferential longitudinal groove of the tread portion.

Abstract: A toy with an exterior structure. Constructed to transform from a rollable first shape to a second shape. An interior structure inside the exterior structure is endowed with a magnetic body that moves by way of a magnetic force that acts from the exterior of the toy, an interior locking portion that moves simultaneously with the movement of this magnetic body, and a biasing member that effects a force which moves or turns this interior locking portion in a particular direction. If the magnetic force does not act from the exterior of the toy, the first shape of the exterior structure maintained. In the event that a magnetic force has acted from the exterior of the said toy, the exterior structure transforms from the first shape to the second shape.

Abstract: A method for producing a cut film comprising cutting a pre-cut film including a resin layer with a laser beam having a wavelength of 400 nm or longer and 850 nm or shorter to obtain a cut film, wherein the pre-cut film has an absorbance, at a wavelength of the laser beam, of 0.10 or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a toner binder that maintains low-temperature fixability and hot offset resistance while having excellent grindability, image strength, heat-resistant storage stability, electrostatic charge stability, gloss-imparting properties, and durability. The toner binder of the present invention contains an amorphous resin (A) and a crystalline vinyl resin (B), wherein a weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of the amorphous resin (A) to the crystalline vinyl resin (B) is 81/19 to 97/3, the toner binder has an endothermic peak top temperature (Tm) derived from the crystalline vinyl resin (B) of 40° C. to 100° C. and a half-width of the endothermic peak derived from the crystalline vinyl resin (B) of 6° C. or less, the crystalline vinyl resin (B) has an acid value of 60 mg KOH/g or less, and the toner binder satisfies the following relation (1): 3° C.?Tfb(A)?Tfb(C)?30° C.

Abstract: A toy with an exterior structure. Constructed to transform from a rollable first shape to a second shape. An interior structure inside the exterior structure is endowed with a magnetic body that moves by way of a magnetic force that acts from the exterior of the toy, an interior locking portion that moves simultaneously with the movement of this magnetic body, and a biasing member that effects a force which moves or turns this interior locking portion in a particular direction. If the magnetic force does not act from the exterior of the toy, the first shape of the exterior structure maintained. In the event that a magnetic force has acted from the exterior of the said toy, the exterior structure transforms from the first shape to the second shape.