Abstract: The present invention provides a molded article comprising a polytetrafluoroethylene resin (A) and a thermoplastic resin (B) having a melting point of not lower than 100° C. but lower than 322° C., wherein the maximum peak temperature of the endothermic curve appearing on the crystal melting curve of the above polytetrafluoroethylene resin (A) as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter is higher by at least 3° C. than the maximum peak temperature of the endothermic curve appearing on the crystal melting curve of the above polytetrafluoroethylene resin (A) after heating to a temperature of not lower than 340° C. as measured by the differential scanning calorimeter.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel carboxylic acid derivatives useful as an insulin sensitizer, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them, and a medicament comprising the derivative as the active ingredient. Specifically, it provides a carboxylic acid derivative represented by the following formula (I): (wherein Y, L, X, T, Z, U, M and W are defined in the specification) and a salt thereof, and ester thereof or a hydrate of them.

Abstract: The invention provides a TFE polymer capable of providing stretched materials excellent in membrane homogeneity. The present invention is related to a tetrafluoroethylene polymer having stretchability and non-melt-processability and having a standard specific gravity of 2.140 to 2.165, wherein, with regard to the heat-of-fusion curve obtained by subjecting the tetrafluoroethylene polymer in the form of an unbaked polymer to be measured having no history of being heated to a temperature of 300° C. or higher to differential scanning calorimetry at a programming rate of 2° C./minute, the ratio between the amount of heat, S2 mJ/mg, absorbed within the temperature range of from the temperature T0° C., which is lower by 2.5° C. than the temperature Tp° C. corresponding to the minimum point on the curve (provided that 340?Tp?345), up to 350° C., and the amount of heat, S1 mJ/mg, absorbed within the temperature range of from 320° C. up to the above-mentioned T0° C., namely the ratio [S2/S1], is not lower than 0.90.

Abstract: Carboxylic acid compound or salt or hydrate thereof useful as insulin sensitizer, represented by the formula wherein R1 represents hydrogen, hydroxyl, halogen, carboxyl, or C1-6 alkyl, L represents single bond or C1-6-alkylene, C2-6-alkenylene, or C2-6-alkynylene, M represents single bond or C1-6-alkylene, C2-6-alkenylene, or C2-6-alkynylene, T represents single bond, or C1-3-alkylene, C2-3-alkenylene, or C2-3-alkynylene, W represents carboxyl, represents single bond, X represents single bond, oxygen, —NRX1CQ1O—, —OCQ1NRX1—, —CQ1NRX1O—, ONRX1CQ1—, —Q2SO2—, or —SO2Q2—, Y represents 5- to 14-membered aromatic group, and ring Z represents 5- to 14-membered aromatic group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polytetrafluoroethylene powder having moldability/processability as well as electrical characteristics in microwave bands. The present invention is a modified polytetrafluoroethylene powder which has (1) a dielectric loss tangent at 12 GHz of not higher than 2.0×10?4 and (2) a cylinder extrusion pressure of not higher than 45 MPa at a reduction ratio of 1600.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a polytetrafluoroethylene-based-resin tube high in longitudinal tensile strength and a method of producing the same. The present invention provides a polytetrafluoroethylene-based-resin tube characterized in that the tensile strength thereof in the longitudinal direction is not lower than 60 MPa.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polytetrafluoroethylene molded article, particularly a PTFE molded article for high-frequency insulation, which is excellent in various electric properties and mechanical properties in a high frequency range of 3 to 30 GHz. The present invention also provides PTFE fine powder, which is excellent in extrusion moldability and capable of providing the molded article, and a process for preparing the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder having a standard specific gravity of 2.180 to 2.225, which is obtained by contacting polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder having a standard specific gravity of 2.180 to 2.225 with a fluorine radical source, wherein tan? at 12 GHz of a film comprising the powder, which is obtained by cooling at 5 to 50° C./second after baking, is at most 2.0×10?4.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound having an excellent PPAR agonist action. More specifically, it provides a compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof, an ester thereof or a hydrate of them. Wherein a, b and c are the same as or different from one another and each represents 0 to 4; R1 to R6 are the same as or different from one another and each represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, etc.; A1 and A2 are the same as or different from each other and each represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, etc.; L, M and T each represent a single bond, an alkylene group having one to six carbon atoms, etc.; W represents a carboxyl group; the partial structure represented by the formula: represents a single bond or a double bond; X represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, —NRx1CQ1O—, etc.; Y represents Y1—Y2— (wherein Y1 represents a 5 to 14-membered aromatic ring having one to four substituents, etc.

Abstract: A lubrication part serving as a bearing metal is provided in a scroll compressor at a sliding part between a cylindrical part of a slide busing and an extension of a movable scroll. An inner periphery of the lubrication part is formed so that its iron substrate is given a surface roughness Ra of 3.7 ?m and a resin layer containing FEP and PTFE is then provided on the roughened substrate surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel carboxylic acid derivative, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them which is useful as an insulin sensitizer, and a medicament comprising the derivative as the effective ingredient. More specifically, it provides a carboxylic acid compound represented by the formula (I), a salt thereof or a hydrate of them.

Abstract: The present invention provides a medicament comprising a benzene compound useful as an insulin sensitizer, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them and a derivative of them as the active ingredient. Specifically, it provides a benzene compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them. In the formula, X represents 1) a C6-10 aryl group which may have one or more substituents or 2) a 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl group which may have one or more substituents; Y represents a group represented by the formula: (in the above formulae, Ry1, Ry2 and Ry3 are the same as or different from one another and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-6 alkyl group, a C1-6 alkoxy group, or a C3-7 cycloalkyl group) etc.

Abstract: The present invention provides a porous polytetrafluoroethylene molded article, wherein the specific gravity of the above porous polytetrafluoroethylene molded article is 0.9 to 2.0 and the aspect ratio of a void formed within the above molded article is not lower than 1 but not higher than 3.

Abstract: The present invention provides a molded article comprising a polytetrafluoroethylene resin (A) and a thermoplastic resin (B) having a melting point of not lower than 100° C. but lower than 322° C., wherein the maximum peak temperature of the endothermic curve appearing on the crystal melting curve of the above polytetrafluoroethylene resin (A) as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter is higher by at least 3° C. than the maximum peak temperature of the endothermic curve appearing on the crystal melting curve of the above polytetrafluoroethylene resin (A) after heating to a temperature of not lower than 340° C. as measured by the differential scanning calorimeter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a TFE resin molding material which has electric characteristics, particularly low dielectric dissipation factor, in a microwave area, can also lower extrusion pressure as the material is of low molecular weight and can provide a molded article excellent in surface smoothness. The material is especially useful as a coating material for a coaxial cable for equipment in which microwave is used, including satellite transmitting equipment and a cell phone base station. A tetrafluoroethylene resin molding material excellent in high frequency electric characteristics, which provides a molded article having a dielectric constant of at most 2.2 and a dielectric dissipation factor of at most 1.60×10?4 under 12 GHz, and a standard specific gravity of at least 2.192 and less than 2.3 is provided. As the tetrafluoroethylene resin, a tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer or a copolymer of 99.9 to 99.9999% by mole of tetrafluoroethylene and 0.0001 to 0.1% by mole of a specific fluoromonomer is used.

Abstract: There is provided a fluorine-containing polymer latex providing a fluorine-containing polymer material being excellent in mechanical properties of a molded article. The preparation process comprises emulsion-polymerizing a fluorine-containing olefin solely or a fluorine-containing olefin and other monomer in an aqueous medium in the presence of at least one of fluorine-containing surfactants represented by the formula (I): F(CF2?mO—(CF(X)CF2—O?nCF(X)COOM wherein X is fluorine atom or a linear or branched lower perfluoroalkyl group; —COOM is a carboxylic acid salt; m is an integer of from 3 to 10; n is 0, 1 or 2. There are also provided a molding material and dispersion comprising a tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer, polytetrafluoroethylene or fluoro elastomer which are obtained by the above-mentioned preparation process.

Abstract: Novel carboxylic acid derivatives of general formula (I), salts of the same, esters thereof, or hydrates of them, which are useful as insulin resistance improvers; and drugs containing the derivatives as the active ingredient. In said formula, R1 is hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, or the like; L is a single bond, a double bond, alkylene, or the like; M is a single bond, alkylene, or the like; T is a single bond, alkylene, or the like; W is carboxyl, —CON(RW1)RW2, or the like; represents a single or double bond; X is oxygen, alkenylene, or the like; Y is an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may contain a heteroatom, or the like; and Z is an aromatic hydrocarbon group which may contain a heteroatom.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel compound having an excellent PPAR agonist action. More specifically, it provides a compound represented by the following formula, a salt thereof, an ester thereof or a hydrate of them. Wherein a, b and c are the same as or different from one another and each represents 0 to 4; R1 to R6 are the same as or different from one another and each represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, etc.; A1 and A2 are the same as or different from each other and each represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, etc.; L, M and T each represent a single bond, an alkylene group having one to six carbon atoms, etc.; W represents a carboxyl group; the partial structure represented by the formula: ?represents a single bond or a double bond; X represents a single bond, an oxygen atom, —NRX1CQ1O—, etc.; Y represents Y1—Y2— (wherein Y1 represents a 5 to 14-membered aromatic ring having one to four substituents, etc.

Abstract: The present invention provides a TFE resin molding material which has electric characteristics, particularly low dielectric dissipation factor, in a microwave area, can also lower extrusion pressure as the material is of low molecular weight and can provide a molded article excellent in surface smoothness. The material is especially useful as a coating material for a coaxial cable for equipment in which microwave is used, including satellite transmitting equipment and a cell phone base station. A tetrafluoroethylene resin molding material excellent in high frequency electric characteristics, which provides a molded article having a dielectric constant of at most 2.2 and a dielectric dissipation factor of at most 1.60×10−4 under 12 GHz, and a standard specific gravity of at least 2.192 and less than 2.3 is provided. As the tetrafluoroethylene resin, a tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer or a copolymer of 99.9 to 99.9999% by mole of tetrafluoroethylene and 0.0001 to 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel carboxylic acid derivatives useful as an insulin sensitizer, a salt thereof or a hydrate of them, and a medicament comprising the derivative as the active ingredient.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a polytetrafluoroethylene-based-resin tube high in longitudinal tensile strength and a method of producing the same.