Abstract: Provided is a structure for individual authentication in which a pillar pattern region including a plurality of nanopillars formed of synthetic quartz glass is formed on at least a part of a surface portion of a synthetic quartz glass substrate. In the pillar pattern region, the nanopillars have an indentation elastic modulus of 35 to 100 GPa as measured by a nanoindentation method, and the nanopillars are plastically deformed.

Abstract: A vehicle interior lighting device includes a light source which is installed at an end of an instrument panel of a vehicle. Light emitted from the light source propagates from the instrument panel toward a door panel, and is projected on a surface of a door trim of the door panel. A decorative pattern element is installed on a light emitting side of the light source. As light from the light source passes through the decorative pattern element, the light can create a pattern on a surface of the door trim. Because the light source is installed on the instrument panel spaced from the door trim rather than on the door trim itself, light can be projected on a large area of the door trim. Furthermore, an impressive feature of a decorative pattern which changes in accordance with a door opening angle can be achieved.

Abstract: A terminal to be coupled to a front end portion of an electric wire. The terminal includes a terminal body and a slider. The terminal body includes a holding section holding a core wire of the electric wire. The slider is movable in a front-rear direction between a first position and a second position that is on a front side with respect to the first position while the slider being fitted on a section of the terminal body including the holding section. The slider includes a pressing portion that presses the holding section toward the electric wire when the slider is at the second position. The slider includes a pressure receiving portion that is pushed from a rear side to move the slider from the first position to the second position. The slider includes a support portion that receives a force applied to the pressure receiving portion that is pushed.

Abstract: A terminal-equipped wire is provided with a wire including a conductor, a terminal to be connected to the conductor, and a shell to be mounted on the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion for sandwiching the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion for pressing at least a part of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion has a Sn—Ni alloy layer. The Sn—Ni alloy layer includes locally projecting protrusions. The protrusions bite into the conductor.

Abstract: A terminal includes a terminal body and a slider. The terminal body is formed by processing a metal sheet. The terminal body is coupled to a front end of an electric wire with respect to an extending direction in which the electric wire extends. The terminal body holds the electric wire. The slider is slidable in the extending direction relative to the terminal body. The terminal body includes connecting tabs that includes contact surfaces contactable with the electric wire. Each of the connecting tabs has a cantilever shape. The slider includes pressing portions that press the connecting tabs so that the connecting tabs deform and the contact surfaces contact the electric wire when the slider is slid. The connecting tabs include burrs that are produced during processing of the metal sheet. The burrs protrude from the contact surfaces toward the electric wire.

Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire that includes a conductor, a terminal connected to the conductor, and a shell attached to the terminal. The conductor has a nominal cross-sectional area of 0.13 mm2 or less. The terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor. At least one of the conductor and the grip portion includes a tin layer, and an oxide coating formed on the surface of the tin layer. An adhering portion formed of a portion of tin contained in the tin layer that passes through the oxide coating and pours out onto a surface of the oxide coating. The adhering portion has an area of 0.100 mm2 or more.

Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire that includes a conductor, a terminal connected to the conductor, and a shell attached to the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion that pinches the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion that presses at least a portion of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion and the conductor are joined with an alloy layer. The alloy layer contains a Cu—Sn alloy.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photocurable silicone composition comprising: at least one organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule; (B) at least one mercapto functional compound having at least two thiol groups per molecule; (C) at least one photopolymerization initiator selected from acylphosphine oxide-type photopolymerization initiators and oxime ester-type photopolymerization initiators; and (D) at least one black pigment.

Abstract: A UV curable silicone composition has exceptional curability by ultraviolet irradiation.

Abstract: A terminal to be connected to a front end part in an extending direction of a wire is provided with a terminal body including a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the wire, and a slide portion slidable along the extending direction of the wire with respect to the terminal body. The slide portion includes a pressurizing portion for pressurizing the sandwiching portion toward the wire. The terminal body is formed by a metal plate material in a bent state. The sandwiching portion includes a holding protrusion projecting toward the wire to contact the wire. The holding protrusion is formed by folding a tip portion of the sandwiching portion and overlapping the tip portion on an overlapping portion of the sandwiching portion. A first facing surface of the overlapping portion and a second facing surface of the tip portion are facing each other and overlapped.

Abstract: A curable silicone composition of the present invention includes (A) straight-chain organopolysiloxane which has at least two alkenyl groups bound to a silicon atom and ?0 mol% and <5 mol% of aryl groups per molecule, (B) organopolysiloxane resin which has at least two alkenyl groups bound to a silicon atom per molecule: 0-10 mass% based on the total mass of organopolysiloxane having alkenyl groups bound to a silicon atom and organopolysiloxane having hydrogen atoms bound to a silicon atom in the composition; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane resin which a specific molecular structure in the form of a network, with at least two hydrogen atoms bound to a silicon atom per molecule: and (E) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst; and mols of SiH/mols of Si-bound alkenyl groups in the total quantity of organopolysiloxane = 1-3.

Abstract: A UV curable silicone composition has exceptional curability by ultraviolet irradiation.

Abstract: Hotmelt silicone compositions are provided including: (A) a resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane component, in which the silicon atom-bonded organic groups do not include an epoxy group-containing organic group, wherein the resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane component includes (A-1) a resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane including at least two alkenyl groups per molecule and free from a (Ar2SiO2/2) unit, and (A-2) a resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane including at least two alkenyl groups per molecule and at least one (Ar2SiO2/2) unit; (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least two silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms per molecule; and (C) a curing catalyst. The resinous alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane (A-1) is included in an amount of about 5 mass % or more based on the total mass of all the organopolysiloxane components in the hotmelt silicone composition.

Abstract: A terminal to be connected to a wire is provided with a terminal body including a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the wire, and a tubular slide portion for accommodating the terminal body inside, the slide portion being slidable with respect to the terminal body. The slide portion includes a wide portion located on a front side in a sliding direction of the slide portion and a narrow portion located behind the wide portion in the sliding direction, an inner shape of the slide portion being narrower in the narrow portion than in the wide portion. The narrow portion is provided with a pressurizing portion projecting inwardly of the slide portion. The pressurizing portion presses the sandwiching portion toward the wire with the slide portion 16 slid in the sliding direction with respect to the terminal body and the narrow portion located outside the sandwiching portion.

Abstract: A curable silicone composition of the present invention contains certain quantities of straight-chain organopolysiloxane which has at least two alkenyl groups and bound to silicon atoms and ?0 mol % and <5 mol % of aryl groups per molecule, organopolysiloxane resin having at least two alkenyl groups bound to a silicon atom in the molecule, organohydrogenpolysiloxane resin which has a network molecular structure with at least two hydrogen atoms bound to a silicon atom per molecule, organohydrogenpolysiloxane resin which has a network molecular structure with at least two hydrogen atoms bound to a silicon atom per molecule, only at the end of the molecule, and hydrosilylation reaction catalyst, and (total mols of silicon-atoms-bound) hydrogen atoms/(total mols of silicon-atom-bound alkenyl groups) in the organopolysiloxane in the composition=1-3.

Abstract: A terminal of the present disclosure is the terminal to be connected to a wire including a core and includes a terminal body and a sliding portion. The terminal body includes a sandwiching portion. The sliding portion is slidable in a front-rear direction between a partial locking position and a full locking position. The sliding portion includes a pressurizing portion configured to press the sandwiching portion at the full locking position to sandwich the core in a first direction by the sandwiching portion, at least a pair of first contact portions configured to contact the core in the first direction when the core is inserted into the sliding portion, and at least a pair of second contact portions configured to contact the core in a second direction intersecting the first direction when the core is inserted into the sliding portion.

Abstract: A terminal is provided with a terminal body including a mating connecting portion, a wire connecting portion and a coupling portion, and a shell. The wire connecting portion includes sandwiching portions extending in an extending direction of a wire and configured to sandwich the wire. The shell includes pressurizing portions for pressurizing the sandwiching portions toward the wire. The mating connecting portion includes a mating bottom wall and mating side walls formed to rise upward in a predetermined rising direction from the mating bottom wall. The wire connecting portion includes a wire-side bottom wall and wire-side side walls rising upward in the rising direction from the wire-side bottom wall. The coupling portion is inclined in a direction opposite to the rising direction from the wire-side bottom wall toward the mating bottom wall to couple the wire-side bottom wall and the mating bottom wall.

Abstract: A wire cover is to be mounted on a rear side in a connecting direction of a connector to be connected to a mating connector. The connector includes a plurality of female terminals disposed apart from each other in a lateral direction and a plurality of wires connected to the respective female terminals and pulled out from the rear side in the connecting direction. The wire cover includes a housing having an insertion opening through which the plurality of wires are inserted and a draw-out opening through which the plurality of wires inserted through the insertion opening are drawn out rightward, and an assisting member for assisting three-dimensional bending of the respective wires inside the housing. The respective wires are three-dimensionally bent inside the housing and drawn out through the draw-out opening by being assisted by the assisting member.

Abstract: A terminal 12 connected to a front end portion of an electric cable 11 in the extension direction thereof is provided with a terminal main body 15 sandwiching the electric cable 11, and a slide member 16 which is capable of sliding relative to the terminal main body 15 in the extension direction of the electric cable 11.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable silicone composition comprising: (A) at least one organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups per molecule; (B) at least one mercapto functional organopolysiloxane having at least two thiol groups per molecule; (C) at least one photopolymerization initiator; and, (D) 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT), wherein the composition has a viscosity of less than 200 mPa·s at 25° C.