Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a reflective member having a silver vapor deposition reflective surface with good durability to prevent cracking or peeling of a protective film and capable of maintaining a high reflectance. The reflective member includes a topcoat layer which serves as a protective film on a silver vapor deposition film which is a silver alloy including Nd on a surface of a base material made of synthetic resin inside a lamp chamber S. The topcoat layer 64 includes a transparent modified silicone series resin using a silicone resin and an acrylic resin as resin components.

Abstract: A reflecting member of a vehicle lamp is provided with a top coat layer formed on a silver deposited coat formed on a surface of a synthetic resin base. The top coat layer is made of a transparent acrylic resin which is synthesized with a monomer whose glass transition temperature is 60° C. or higher. The top coat layer adheres to the silver deposited coat to suppress the agglomeration of Ag atoms constituting the silver deposited coat.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a process for preparing a vinyl polymer containing a halogen in an amount of 1,000 mg or less per kilogram, in which a vinyl polymer containing the halogen produced by atom transfer radical polymerization of a vinyl monomer is heated at a temperature in the range of 140 to 250° C. to dehalogenate the vinyl polymer; a vinyl polymer obtained by the process; and a hydrosilylation-reactive curable composition containing the vinyl polymer.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a process for preparing a vinyl polymer containing a halogen in an amount of 1,000 mg or less per kilogram, in which a vinyl polymer containing the halogen produced by atom transfer radical polymerization of a vinyl monomer is heated at a temperature in the range of 140 to 250° C. to dehalogenate the vinyl polymer; a vinyl polymer obtained by the process; and a hydrosilylation-reactive curable composition containing the vinyl polymer.

Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a reflective member having a silver vapor deposition reflective surface with good durability to prevent cracking or peeling of a protective film and capable of maintaining a high reflectance. The reflective member includes a topcoat layer which serves as a protective film on a silver vapor deposition film which is a silver alloy including Nd on a surface of a base material made of synthetic resin inside a lamp chamber S. The topcoat layer 64 includes a transparent modified silicone series resin using a silicone resin and an acrylic resin as resin components.

Abstract: A reflecting member of a vehicle lamp is provided with a top coat layer formed on a silver deposited coat formed on a surface of a synthetic resin base. The top coat layer is made of a transparent acrylic resin which is synthesized with a monomer whose glass transition temperature is 60° C. or higher. The top coat layer adheres to the silver deposited coat to suppress the agglomeration of Ag atoms constituting the silver deposited coat.

Abstract: This invention is related to a production method of a branched polymer which comprises polymerizing a macromonomer [I], said macromonomer [I] being a vinyl polymer obtainable by radical polymerization and terminally having one polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond-containing group per molecule. Furthermore, by producing the macromonomer by living radical polymerization, in particular atom transfer radical polymerization, it becomes possible to produce the above polymers or gels having a well controlled side chain molecular weights.

Abstract: This invention is related to a production method of a branched polymer which comprises polymerizing a macromonomer [I], said macromonomer [I] being a vinyl polymer obtainable by radical polymerization and terminally having one polymerizable carbon—carbon double bond-containing group per molecule. Furthermore, by producing the macromonomer by living radical polymerization, in particular atom transfer radical polymerization, it becomes possible to produce the above polymers or gels having well controlled side chain molecular weights.

Abstract: A brain-protective agent containing an NF-?B decoy. In brain diseases, the brain can be particularly effectively protected against brain disorders (for example, cerebral vasospasm following a subrachnoidal hemorrhage and apoptosis of the nerve cells following a cerebrovasucular accident or serious head injury) caused by the undesired activation of cytokines or cell adhesion factors which are regulated by NF-?B by administering the brain-protective agent containing an NF-?B decoy, i.e., acompound antadonistic specifically to a nucleic acid to which NF-?B binds.

Abstract: A brain-protective agent containing an NF-&kgr;B decoy. In brain diseases, the brain can be particularly effectively protected against brain disorders (for example, cerebral vasospasm following a subrachnoidal hemorrhage and apoptosis of the nerve cells following a cerebrovasucular accident or serious head injury) caused by the undesired activation of cytokines or cell adhesion factors which are regulated by NF-&kgr;B by administering the brain-protective agent containing an NF-&kgr;B decoy, i.e., a compound antadonistic specifically to a nucleic acid to which NF-&kgr;B binds.

Abstract: A vehicular lamp having an improved luminous intensity of reflected light that has passed through a tinted topcoat layer. Light emitted from a light source bulb is reflected by a reflector to form an outward beam. The reflector is formed of an effective reflector portion contributing to formation of the outward beam and a non-effective reflector portion not contributing to formation of the outward beam. Only the non-effective reflector portion or only the non-effective reflector portion and an extension portion are coated with a tinted topcoat layer. The particle diameter of pigments dispersed in the tinted topcoat layer is limited to a certain range.

Abstract: This invention is related to a polymerization method wherein an atom transfer radical polymerization of a vinyl monomer is carried out under at least one condition selected from the group consisting of the following (1), (2), (3) and (4): (1) in a substantially anhydrous system; (2) in the presence of a nitrile compound; (3) addition, to the system, of a ligand to the polymerization catalyst to thereby initiate the polymerization; (4) varying a polymerization catalyst activity during polymerization to thereby control the rate of polymerization.

Abstract: A vehicular lamp having an improved luminous intensity of reflected light that has passed through a tinted topcoat layer. Light emitted from a light source bulb is reflected by a reflector to form an outward beam. The reflector is formed of an effective reflector portion contributing to formation of the outward beam and a non-effective reflector portion not contributing to formation of the outward beam. Only the non-effective reflector portion or only the non-effective reflector portion and an extension portion are coated with a tinted topcoat layer. The particle diameter of pigments dispersed in the tinted topcoat layer is limited to a certain range.

Abstract: The temperature of a catalyst is heated to 535° C. with an electric furnace for feeding hydrogen gas into a reaction tube at a flow rate of 50 cc/min. for two hours and reducing the catalyst, and thereafter reaction gas containing hydrogen and carbon dioxide in a mixing ratio of 2:1 is fed into the reaction tube. The carbon dioxide contained in the reaction gas is reduced with hydrogen by coming into contact with the catalyst, and carbon such as carbon nanotube is precipitated on the surface of the catalyst. The carbon nanotube or the like can be produced under a lower temperature and ordinary pressure with no requirement for a specific apparatus for high-temperature and high-pressure reaction.

Abstract: An anaerobic fermentation part generates gas containing methane and carbon dioxide by anaerobically fermenting biomass. The gas is passed to a methane.carbon dioxide separation part to be separated into methane and carbon dioxide, and part of the separated methane is fed to a methane reforming part to be decomposed into carbon and hydrogen under the presence of a catalyst. The carbon dioxide separated in the methane.carbon dioxide separation part and the hydrogen formed in the methane reforming part are fed to a carbon dioxide fixing part, which in turn reacts the carbon dioxide with the hydrogen under the presence of a catalyst for continuously forming carbon and hydrogen and fixing the carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A golf club head comprises an outer titanium club-head shell, and a titanium sole portion integrally coupled to the outer club-head shell. A weight fitting hole is bored in the sole portion, and a plurality of cutouts are formed in the inner peripheral edge portion of the fitting hole. A weight made of metal having a specific gravity higher than that of titanium is inserted into the fitting hole, and the weight is fixed to the sole portion after press-deformed so that its outer peripheral edges are press-fitted into the respective cutouts.

Abstract: The major object of this invention is to provide a heat build-up/fatigue measuring method for a viscoelastic body and a hydraulic servo flexometer, that enable direct measurement of a strain (displacement) and a stress (load) applied to a test piece and realize highly precise measurement by controlling the stress and the strain applied to the test piece by hydraulic servo feedback control based on the measured strain and stress.The hydraulic servo flexometer of this invention includes an upper anvil (22) and a lower anvil (18) having opposing parallel flat surfaces that form test piece holding surfaces, a hydraulic servo cylinder (19) having a piston rod (21) which is coupled to the upper anvil (22) or lower anvil (18) and which actuates in a direction perpendicular to the test piece holding surfaces, and a hydraulic servo mechanism for applying static and dynamic loads to the test piece (23).

Abstract: A method of performing thermal working to metal material containing helium, which comprises the steps of previously feeding current through a thermally working portion of the metal material containing helium to thereby reduce a helium content in the portion without melting the portion and then heating and melting the portion to improve the defects of the metal structure of the metal material containing helium. As a result, the improvement and removal of defects of the metal structure can be achieved by reducing a helium content in the thermally working portion of the metal material.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring stress of viscoelastic material in which a rotational die and a torque detecting die are provided, an outer cylindrical die is provided around the torque detecting die, the diameter of the rotational die is arranged to be larger than the diameter of the outer cylindrical die, and the surface forming one part of a sample chamber has such configuration that a slipping of the sample contained in the sample chamber is prevented, so that a shearing speed having no disorder can be given to the sample mounted all over a surface, forming the sample chamber, of the torque detecting die.