Abstract: A slidingly detachable core member (12) for use within an elastic tube (16) is provided. The core member (12) has a hollow cylindrical body (22) and a sliding material (24) associated with the body. An extension (26) is provided in the body (22) and extends outward.

Abstract: Novel amine compounds which are represented by the following formula (1) and efficacious against diseases such as a viral infectious disease with HIV, rheumatism, and cancer metastasis; typically, A1 and A2 represent a hydrogen atom or a substitutable monocyclic or polycyclic heteroaromatic ring and W represents a substitutable benzene ring or any group represented by the following formula (10) or (11): where X represents O, CH2, C(?O), NR11, or CHR35 and D represents a group represented by the following formula (6): where Q represents a single bond, NR12, or a group represented by the formula (13): and Y represents a group represented by the following formula (7): where z represents a substitutable monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring; and B represents —NR25R26; and R1 to R26 in the above formulae represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, or an alkynyl group.

Abstract: An inventive titanium dioxide particle has 70 to 95 wt % crystalline anatase, a BET specific surface area of 65 to 120 m2/g, and an oil absorption being 70 to 90 ml/100 g measured by the method according to JIS K5101, which particle exhibits uniformity, excellent preservability and dispersibility in an acidic aqueous solution. There is disclosed a photovoltaic device 10 which comprises a light-transmittable base material 11, and a porous film 21b formed on the base material 11, in which a dye is absorbed, and the porous film 21b having the dye absorbed thereon contains the inventive titanium dioxide particle.

Abstract: It is intended to provide novel amine compounds which are efficacious against diseases such as infection with HIV virus, rheumatism and cancer metastasis. Namely, amine compounds represented by the following general formula (1): In a typical case, A1 and A2 represent each an optionally substituted monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic heterocycle; W represents cyclic C3-10 alkylene, an optionally substituted monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic heterocycle, a monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring or a partly saturated polycyclic aromatic ring; X represents O, CH2, C(?O) or NR11; and D is a group represented by the following general formula (4) or (6). In the formula (6), Q represents a single bond, S, O or NR12; and Y is a group represented by the following general formula (7). z represents an optionally substituted monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring. In the formula (6), B represents NR25R26. In the above formulae, R1 to R26 each represents hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl.

Abstract: A hydraulic system 10 of the present invention has a hydraulic pump driven by a driving source 14, a hydraulic pump motor 52 driven by an operating oil discharged from the hydraulic pump and flowing in an oil path 50, an inertial body 60 connected to a rotary shaft of the hydraulic pump motor, an oil path 62 connected between an outlet port of the hydraulic pump motor and a load 22, an unloading oil path 64 branched from the oil path 62, and an on-off valve 68 inserted in the unloading oil path. In this configuration, as the on-off valve is opened and closed, a high pressure is generated in the oil path 62 by making use of kinetic energy of the inertial body. The inertial body is driven by hydraulic power and the inertial body is separated from the driving source, which also provides an effect of increasing degrees of freedom for an instrument layout.

Abstract: The present invention provides an in-spray glow discharge ionization method and apparatus which can be used together or alternately with the most widely used ionization method of mass spectrometry, such as an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) method or an electrospray ionization (ESI) method while enhancing ionization efficiency using a gas exhibiting Penning effect. The in-spray glow discharge ionization apparatus has a supply port (A) supplying a fluid containing a compound to be measured, a gas blowing port (B) which surrounds the supply port (A) and which blows a gas exhibiting Penning effect to nebulize the fluid supplied from the supply port (A), a ground-side discharge electrode (E) provided at a generation port (C) at which the nebulized flow is generated, and a voltage application-side discharge electrode (F) which is disposed in the traveling direction of the nebulized flow and opposed to the ground-side discharge electrode.

Abstract: To provide a block copolymer composition having a good balance in transparency and impact resistance, and particularly having an excellent impact resistance, by making a molded product of injection molding under high sear condition in such a manner as to hardly generate anisotropy. A block copolymer composed of a hard segment block comprising a block made mainly of a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and a soft segment block comprising a block made mainly of a conjugated diene, characterized by having a remarkably improved impact resistance without degrading transparency in respect of not only an extrusion-molded product and a blow-molded product but also an injection-molded product, by blending two kinds of block copolymers having a hard segment block of a specific structure.

Abstract: A flexible circuit sheet is electrically connected to an electric device. The electric device has a first row of electric terminals and a second row of electric terminals. Both the first row of electric terminals and the second row of electric terminals extend along a first direction, the second row of electric terminals extends parallel to the first row of electric terminals. The flexible circuit comprises a base sheet, a first row of lands formed on the base sheet to be electrically connected to the first row of electric terminals, and a second row of lands formed on the base sheet to be electrically connected to the second row of electric terminals. A positional relationship between the first row of lands and the second row of lands is equal to a positional relationship between the first row of electric terminals and the second row of electric terminals. A surface area of each land of the first row of lands is greater than a surface area of each land of the second row of lands.

Abstract: There are provided a plating factory for process roll for a gravure printing and a turn-table type roll stock apparatus preferable to the gravure printing plate manufacturing factory where a series of plating steps can be performed against the process roll for the gravure printing in an unmanned state at night in a full-automatic operation and the cell can be formed. Many process rolls can be stood obliquely in a circumferential arrangement in one stage or two stages at a roll pallet in such a way that a longitudinal direction of the process rolls may coincide with a generatrix at a conical surface and an optional roll pallet can be stopped at a predetermined position so as to store or take out the process rolls in respect to the roll pallet.

Abstract: Novel amine compounds which are efficacious against diseases such as infection with HIV virus, rheumatism, and cancer metastasis include compounds represented by the following general formula (1), a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, or a prodrug thereof: wherein each of n1, n2, and n3 is an integer of 1; each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 is independently a hydrogen atom; A1 is imidazole; A2 is imidazole or imidazole substituted with an alkyl group; W is a phenyl group or naphthyl group; X is CH2; D is a group represented by -Q-Y—B, wherein Q is NR12 and R12 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; Y is (CH2)m3 and m3 is an integer of 2 to 4; and B is N(R25R26), wherein each of R25 and R26 are independently a hydrogen atom, a C1–C6 alkyl group or a C3–C6 cycloalkyl group.

Abstract: A plurality of external electrodes 11c, 11m are disposed in parallel along two sides facing each other of a region 300 corresponding to the circuit substrate to be manufactured, and a probing electrode is formed, which is connected to the external electrodes through extending conductors 13a, 13b extending to the outside the region 300 from the external electrodes. At this time, widths of the extending conductors 13a, 13b are set smaller than the widths of the external electrodes 11c, 11m and probing electrodes 12a, 12b. Therefore, a solder storage part is formed in a wide portion in a width changing part between an electrode and a conductor, and a necessary sufficient amount of solder is adhered to the surfaces of the external electrodes 11c, 11m.

Abstract: Highly versatile composite fine particles that can coexist with a wide variety of other components, a dispersion thereof, and a method of producing such a dispersion. Furthermore, by using these composite fine particles, there are also provided a high-quality ink jet recording material and a method of producing this ink jet recording material. Composite fine particles, which include cationic fine particles that exhibit a positive zeta potential when dispersed within water to form a dispersion and an anionic compound that is supported on the surface of the cationic fine particles, wherein the composite fine particles exhibit a negative zeta potential when dispersed within water to form a dispersion, are added to the coating layer of an ink jet recording material.

Abstract: A insecticide characterized by containing as active ingredient a hydrazone derivative of formula (I) wherein A and Q are an aryl or a heterocyclic group, W is oxygen atom, an aminylene, an alkylene group, an oxyalkylene group or an alkyleneoxy, X1 and X2 are hydrogen atom, an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, a heterocyclic group, formyl, an acyl, an alkoxycarbonyl, an aryloxycarbonyl, a heterocyclic oxycarbonyl, an alkylsulfinyl, an arylsulfinyl, a heterocyclic sulfinyl, an alkylsulfonyl, an arylsulfonyl or a heterocyclic sulfonyl, Y is oxygen atom or sulfur atom, Z is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, cyano, an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, an amino, an alkoxy or an alkylthio, the substituents may be substituted; and novel hydrazon derivatives.

Abstract: A recording apparatus that has a recording head and a flexible printed circuit board. The recording head, which performs recording on a recording medium, has a plurality of recording elements. One end of the flexible printed circuit board has plurality of feeder wires that connect to one of the terminal lands of each of the recording elements. A first common voltage wire connects the other terminal lands of each of the recording elements to a common potential. A drive circuit is attached to the flexible printed circuit board to drive the recording head via the feeder wires. The other end of the flexible printed circuit board is connected to another circuit board used by the recording apparatus.

Abstract: A recording apparatus that has a recording head and a flexible printed circuit board. The recording head, which performs recording on a recording medium, has a plurality of recording elements. One end of the flexible printed circuit board has plurality of feeder wires that connect to one of the terminal lands of each of the recording elements. A first common voltage wire connects the other terminal lands of each of the recording elements to a common potential. A drive circuit is attached to the flexible printed circuit board to drive the recording head via the feeder wires. The other end of the flexible printed circuit board is connected to another circuit board used by the recording apparatus.

Abstract: A wire-terminal element (10) includes a terminal attachment section (12) having an engaging element (24) mechanically attached to a terminal part, a wire connecting section (14) having flat insulation-displacing elements (30) with slot connected to an electric wire, and a wire holding section (16) having first and second holding elements (36) and (40) for holding the electric wire therebetween in a manner that the electric wire is bent nearly at right angles. The wire connecting section (14) and the wire holding section (16) are arranged to be rotated relative to each other via a joint area (22).

Abstract: A heat shrinkable film and a heat shrinkable multilayer film excellent in balance of heat resistance, high shrinkability, high shrinkability particularly at a low temperature, resistance to spontaneous shrinkage, chemical resistance and rigidity, are provided. A heat shrinkable film and a heat shrinkable multilayer film obtained from a resin composition comprising an aromatic vinyl compound/conjugated diene block copolymer having a micro phase separation structure comprising a soft phase and a hard phase and further having a specific structure and a specific dynamic viscoelasticity spectrum and a styrene polymer having a syndyotactic structure, in a specific proportion.

Abstract: To provide a block copolymer mixture containing a branched block copolymer such that it is excellent in balance between transparency and impact resistance, and a molded product formed from it by injection molding particularly under a high shearing force is less likely to have anisotropy and is thereby excellent in impact resistance. A block copolymer mixture containing a branched block copolymer characterized in that it has at least three types of polymer blocks with different molecular weights, each comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon as monomer units, the molecular weight distribution of a mixture of the polymer blocks S1, S2 and S3 each comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon as monomer units is within a specific range, and in a gel permeation chromatogram of the mixture of three types of the polymer blocks S1, S2 and S3, M1/M3 and M2/M3 are within specific ranges, where M1, M2 and M3 are peak top molecular weights of the respective polymer blocks.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel compounds having antiviral activities and antiviral drugs containing the compounds as the active ingredient.

Abstract: A power supply apparatus for a vehicle slide door, including a cable installed between a vehicle body and a slide door and a cable guide for guiding the cable. The cable guide includes a plurality of link members interconnected into a linear configuration. The cable guide includes a first section and a second section. The first section is capable of being bent in a predetermined direction from a generally linear condition. The second section is capable of being bent in an opposite direction opposite to the predetermined direction from a generally linear condition.