Abstract: Provided is an optical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that gives a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer having such heating reworkability as to be easily removed from a component such as cover glass at a temperature higher than the service temperature of an image display device. The optical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention gives a release force X of 4.0 N/20 mm or less, where the release force X is a release force determined by applying a film to a glass plate through a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer made from the optical pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and puling the film at a temperature of 100° C., a peel angle of 180 degrees, and a tensile speed of 50 mm/min.

Abstract: A heating method capable of changing thermal hysteresis for each part of the center pillar for the vehicle is provided. A heating method includes heating, when the center pillar for the vehicle is annealed, the center pillar by induction heating so that: a strength of a part of the first part other than the flange part becomes higher than that of the flange part of the first part, and the strength of the flange part of the first part becomes higher than that of the second part; and toughness of the second part becomes higher than that of the flange part of the first part, and the toughness of the flange part of the first part becomes higher than that of the part of the first part other than the flange part.

Abstract: A supporting section is disposed to confront an ejection surface and supports a recording medium. A first tank is mounted on a first-tank mount section. A liquid conveying section conveys liquid to a liquid ejecting head. A receiving section receives liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting head. A waste-liquid conveying section conveys liquid to the waste-liquid tank. A first casing holds the liquid ejecting head, the first-tank mount section, and the liquid conveying section. A second casing holds the supporting section, the receiving section, the waste-liquid tank, and the waste-liquid conveying section. The first casing is connected with the second casing such that the first casing is movable relative to the second casing. The first casing takes a first position at which the ejection surface confronts the supporting section and a second position at which the ejection surface is farther away from the supporting section than at the first position.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a first movable contact, a second movable contact, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The moving member holds the first movable contact piece. The moving member is made of a resin having electrical insulation. The moving member includes a first member and a second member. The first member is connected to a movable iron core. The second member is a separate body from the first member. The second member is connected to the first member by snap fitting. The first member includes a convex portion. The convex portion projects toward the second member in a moving direction of the moving member. The second member includes an inspection hole. The inspection hole faces the convex portion in the moving direction and extends in the moving direction.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a moving member, a yoke, a guide member, and a movable iron core. The yoke includes a plate portion and a yoke hole. The guide member is disposed in the yoke hole. The movable iron core is connected to the moving member. The movable iron core includes a tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a first end surface and a second end surface. The tubular portion is disposed in the guide member. The plate portion includes a first surface and a second surface. In a case where the moving member is located at the closed position, the first end surface is located within a range from a first position to a second position. The first position is a position corresponding to the first surface. The second position is located at a center of the first surface and the second surface.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a base, a first terminal, a fixing member, and a first adhesive. The base includes a first hole. The base is made of a thermosetting resin. The first terminal extends through the first hole. The fixing member is a separate body from the base. The fixing member has higher elasticity than the thermosetting resin. The fixing member fixes the first terminal to the base. The fixing member includes a first support wall and a first recess. The first support wall is disposed between an inner surface of the first hole and the first terminal. The first support wall extends upward along the first terminal. The first recess is disposed on an upper surface of the first support wall and faces the first terminal. The first adhesive is filled in the first recess. The first adhesive adheres the first terminal and the first support wall.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The movable iron core is connected to the moving member and is configured to move by a magnetic force generated by the coil. The moving member is made of an electrical insulator. The moving member includes a support portion and a connecting portion. The support portion holds a first movable contact piece. The connecting portion is connected to the movable iron core. The connecting portion includes a locking groove and a locking projection. An end of the movable iron core is disposed in the locking groove. The locking projection presses the end of the movable iron core in the locking groove. The locking projection extends in a support direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the moving member.

Abstract: An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The moving member holds the first movable contact piece. The movable iron core is connected to the moving member and is configured to move by a magnetic force generated by the coil. The moving member is made of resin having electrical insulation. The moving member includes a first member and a second member. The second member is connected to the first member by snap fitting. The first member includes a first protrusion. The second member includes a second main body, a first locking portion, and a first arm. The first locking portion locks to the first protrusion. The first arm connects the second main body and the first locking portion. A thickness of the first arm is smaller than a thickness of the first locking portion.

Abstract: Pressure sensitive adhesive sheet has a shear storage elastic modulus of 3×104 Pa or more at 80° C. In the pressure sensitive adhesive sheet, an absolute value of a difference ?G? between a shear storage elastic modulus at 25° C. after a weather resistance test and a shear storage elastic modulus at 25° C. before the weather resistance test is 5×104 Pa or less, wherein the weather resistance test is conducted by applying light from a xenon lamp with an irradiation intensity of 0.63 W/cm2 at a wavelength of 340 nm for 500 hours. An increment in the amount of transmitted light b* before and after the weather resistance test is preferably 0.5 or less.

Abstract: A supporting section is disposed to confront an ejection surface and supports a recording medium. A first tank is mounted on a first-tank mount section. A liquid conveying section conveys liquid to a liquid ejecting head. A receiving section receives liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting head. A waste-liquid conveying section conveys liquid to the waste-liquid tank. A first casing holds the liquid ejecting head, the first-tank mount section, and the liquid conveying section. A second casing holds the supporting section, the receiving section, the waste-liquid tank, and the waste-liquid conveying section. The first casing is connected with the second casing such that the first casing is movable relative to the second casing. The first casing takes a first position at which the ejection surface confronts the supporting section and a second position at which the ejection surface is farther away from the supporting section than at the first position.

Abstract: A compound useful as a release agent, and a release agent, a curable composition, and a nanoimprint lithography resin material each containing the compound are provided. More specifically, a calixarene compound with a molecular structure represented by the following structural formula (1) and a composition containing the calixarene compound are provided. wherein R1 denotes a structural moiety with a perfluoroalkyl group, R2 denotes a hydrogen atom, a polar group, a polymerizable group, or a structural moiety with a polar group or a polymerizable group, R3 denotes a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group that may have a substituent, or an aryl group that may have a substituent, n denotes an integer in the range of 2 to 10, and * denotes a bonding point with an aromatic ring.

Abstract: A fixing device is for fixing a developing agent image to a recording sheet by electrostatically spraying a charged fixing solution toward the developing agent image on the sheet. The fixing device includes a container portion, a plurality of nozzles, and a potential difference generating portion. The container portion is configured to store therein the fixing solution. The plurality of nozzles is in communication with the container portion and configured to spray the fixing solution toward the developing agent image. The potential difference generating portion is configured to generate a potential difference between the fixing solution stored in the plurality of nozzles and the recording sheet conveyed at a position separated from the plurality of nozzles.

Abstract: A moving body tracking system, comprising: a first camera that captures image(s) of moving body entering an intersection, a plurality of second cameras installed in a plurality of locations set as destinations of the moving body entering the intersection, a moving direction determining part that determines a moving direction of the moving body entering the intersection due to a change in direction of the moving body based on captured data by the first camera, and a path specifying part that selects the second camera based on the moving direction of the moving body, searches a frame in which the specified moving body was captured from captured data by the second camera, and specifies a path of the moving body.

Abstract: A calixarene compound represented by formula (1) below is provided. The calixarene compound contains, per molecule, at least one —CH2OH group or phenolic hydroxy group and at least one carbon-carbon unsaturated bond. R1's are a structural moiety (A), which has a —CH2OH group; a structural moiety (B), which has a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond; a structural moiety (C), which has a —CH2OH group and a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond; a monovalent organic group (D), which is different from (A), (B), and (C); or a hydrogen atom (E). R2's are (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) provided that not all R2's are (E). R3's are one of a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and an aryl group. n is 2 to 10. * is a point of attachment to an aromatic ring. A curable composition including the calixarene compound is provided. A cured product of the curable composition is provided.

Abstract: A piston compressor includes a housing including a cylinder block having cylinder bores. The housing has a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber, and an axial hole. The piston compressor includes a drive shaft, a fixed swash plate, a piston, a discharge valve, a rotating body, and a control valve. The rotating body has a second communication passage that communicates with first communication passages intermittently by rotation of the drive shaft. A flow rate of refrigerant gas discharged from the compression chambers into the discharge chamber decreases when a communication angle around the axis becomes large per a rotation of the drive shaft depending on a position of the rotating body in the direction of the axis. The piston compressor includes a suction throttle that decreases the flow rate of refrigerant gas in the compression chamber when the communication angle becomes large based on the control pressure.

Abstract: A compressor includes a rotary shaft, a front rotor including a front rotor surface, an intermediate wall portion including a first wall surface opposed to the front rotor surface in an axial direction, and a vane that is inserted into a vane groove formed in the intermediate wall portion and is moved in the axial direction with rotation of the front rotor. The vane includes a first vane end that is an end in the axial direction and contacts the front rotor surface. The first vane end is curved so as to be convex toward the front rotor surface and extends in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The front rotor surface includes a front curving surface curved in the axial direction so as to be displaced in the axial direction in accordance with its angular position.

Abstract: A piston compressor includes a housing, a drive shaft, a fixed swash plate, a plurality of pistons, a movable body, and a control valve. The housing includes a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores and a plurality of first communication passages. The movable body has a second communication passage that intermittently communicates with each of the first communication passages by rotation of the drive shaft. A flow rate of refrigerant discharged from a compression chamber into a discharge chamber changes according to a position of the movable body in a direction of an axis of the drive shaft. The control valve is configured to control a control pressure. The first communication passages are connected to the second communication passage by the movable body and disconnected from the second communication passage by the drive shaft.

Abstract: A method for producing a steel plate member (SPM), including: a quenching step for heating the SPM to a temperature higher than an austenite transformation finish temperature A3 and subsequently cooling the SPM at a cooling rate (CR) faster than an upper critical CR; and a tempering step for reheating a second region of the SPM to a temperature higher than an austenite transformation start temperature A1 without reheating a first region of the SPM after quenching and subsequently cooling the SPM at a CR slower than a lower critical CR. In the cooling process of the tempering step, the shape of the second region is corrected in a temperature range from a temperature equal to or lower than A1 to a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which transformation into ferrite and pearlite is finished while maintaining the CR slower than the lower critical CR.

Abstract: A cutting machine can be configured to set a cutting line with respect to a cutting material that is placed on a supporting platform, cut the cutting material along one cutting line that intersect with and changes direction at a second cutting line at a corner portion, leaving a part of the cutting material connected along a predetermined distance from a point of intersection of the corner portion, and cutting along the other cutting line so as to not leave a connected part, up to a predetermined distance from the point of intersection of the corner portion.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a first housing; a second housing pivotable about a shaft relative to the first housing between a close position and a distant position; and a tank mount portion provided in the second housing such that a mounting direction of a tank with respect to the tank mount portion in a state in which the second housing is at the distant position has a downward component in a vertical direction. The tank mount portion includes a resistance applying mechanism which applies a resistance force to the tank in a state in which at least a part of the tank is inserted into the tank mount portion when the second housing is at the distant position.