Abstract: A polyolefin resin composition excellent in flame retardancy and mechanical properties and also in wearing resistance and an electric wire produced with the composition are provided. The polyolefin resin composition is characterized by containing, as a flame retardant, magnesium hydroxide particles which have a higher fatty acid bonded to part of the surface of the particles and further have a silicone oil having reactivity bonded to that part of the particles which does not have the higher fatty acid bonded thereto. The electric wire is characterized by having a sheath layer formed from the polyolefin resin composition.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, to which apparatus a process cartridge is detachably mountable, wherein said process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum unit and a developing unit, wherein said photosensitive drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, and said developing unit is rotatably engageable with said photosensitive drum unit and includes a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on said photosensitive drum, and wherein said developing unit is movable between a contact position in which said developing roller is in contact to said photosensitive drum and a spaced position in which said developing roller is spaced from said photosensitive drum, said image forming apparatus including means for exposing said photosensitive drum with light through a transmission member to form the electrostatic latent image, wherein said exposure means is positioned below said process cartridge when said process cartridge is mounted to a main assem

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion which forms a toner image on a sheet; a fixing rotary member pair which fixes the toner image onto the sheet; a reversing rotary member pair capable of performing a refeeding operation in which, in order to form a toner image on another surface of the sheet having one surface on which an image has been formed, the reversing rotary member pair rotates forward and then rotates backward to refeed the sheet toward the image forming portion; and a drive portion which drives the fixing rotary member pair and the reversing rotary member pair by a common drive source, wherein the drive portion can continue to rotate the fixing rotary member pair even when the drive portion stops the refeeding operation of the reversing rotary member pair.

Abstract: A pressure vessel of the present invention is such that at least part thereof comprises a metallic composite material 40 comprising a light metal 41, which is turned into a matrix, and a plate-shaped iron-based member 42, which is buried in the light metal 41, whose major component is iron, and which is provided with a large number of through holes penetrating the front and rear surfaces. By means of this construction, it is possible to provide a pressure vessel having a novel construction whose pressure resistance is enhanced without being accompanied by thickening, and a compressor being provided with a housing comprising the pressure vessel.

Abstract: A producing method for producing zirconia hollow particles in which a zirconia powder mutually combines to form a porous shell layer thereby constructing a hollow structure, the method being characterized in mixing under a pressurized contact a resin powder and a zirconia powder of a grain size smaller than that of the resin powder, thereby forming a precursor by covering a surface of the resin powder with the zirconia powder in a partially embedded state, and calcining the precursor to expel the resin powder and to mutually sinter the zirconia powder.

Abstract: There is provided a failure diagnostic apparatus that diagnoses a semiconductor integrated circuit device for failure based on a compressed signal obtained by compressing a plurality of signals outputted from a plurality of scan chains in which a plurality of scan flip-flops, to which signals from the semiconductor integrated circuit device are inputted, are connected in series. For each stage of the scan chains, the failure diagnostic apparatus sets a virtual space compression circuit that compresses output signals of the scan flip-flops in the stage and a virtual pin connected to the output terminal of the virtual space compression circuit, and the output signal of the virtual pin is compared with the compression signal to diagnose the semiconductor integrated circuit device for failure.

Abstract: A positive working resist composition comprises a specific resin. The specific resin comprises: a repeating unit having a first specific group; and a repeating unit having a second specific group, the first specific group being different from the second specific group; and a specific structure in an end terminal of the resin. The specific resin decomposes by action of an acid to increase its solubility in an alkaline developer.

Abstract: An inkjet printer, including a recording head having a nozzle to jet ink droplets, a control section to control jetting of the ink droplets from the nozzle of the recording head at predetermined driving conditions for jetting the ink droplets, a velocity detecting section to detect ink droplets jetting velocity from the nozzle of the recording head, a temperature detecting section to detect temperature of the recording head or ambient temperature of the recording head, a first changing section to change the driving conditions to alter the ink droplets jetting velocity to a targeted velocity based on detected results of the velocity detecting section, and a second changing section to change the driving conditions at a time differing from a time of the first changing section to alter the ink droplets jetting velocity to the targeted velocity based on the detected results of the temperature detecting section.

Abstract: To provide a sliding member that exhibits excellent durability and is free of lead. A swash plate for a compressor as the sliding member of the invention contains a base material having on the surface thereof a sliding layer constituting at least a sliding surface, on which shoes slide. The sliding layer contains a first layer that contains an amorphous hard carbon (diamond-like carbon) film containing Si (DLC-Si film) and is formed on the base material, and a second layer that is formed on the first layer and contains polyamideimide (PAI) containing a solid lubricant such as MoS2.

Abstract: A heat-resistant magnesium alloy is for casting, and includes Ca in an amount of from 1 to 15% by mass, Al in a summed amount of from 4 to 25% by mass with the amount of Ca, and the balance being Mg and inevitable impurities when the entirety is taken as 100% by mass. The heat-resistant magnesium alloy is not only inexpensive, but also effects an advantage that cracks are inhibited from occurring when being cast. For example, a process for producing heat-resistant magnesium alloy cast product includes the step of pressure pouring an alloy molten metal, which has a target composition around Mg-3% Ca-3% Al-from 0.2 to 0.3% Mn, into a cavity of metallic die, which is preheated to a die temperature of from 130 to 140° C. in advance. The process makes it possible to produce die-cast products, which are free from cast cracks.

Abstract: A pressure vessel of the present invention is such that at least part thereof comprises a metallic composite material 40 comprising alight metal 41, which is turned into a matrix, and a plateshaped iron-basedmember 42, which is buried in the light metal 41, whose major component is iron, and which is provided with a large number of through holes penetrating the front and rear surfaces. By means of this construction, it is possible to provide a pressure vessel having a novel construction whose pressure resistance is enhanced without being accompanied by thickening, and a compressor being provided with a housing comprising the pressure vessel.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image bearing belt, a first roller to support the image bearing belt, a second roller located away from the first roller in a horizontal direction in a lower place than the first roller to support and drive the image bearing belt, wherein the image bearing belt is inclined between the first roller and the second roller, a third roller located above the second roller to support the image bearing belt, wherein a plane of the image bearing belt formed between the second roller and the third roller is approximately vertical, a conveyance path configured to convey a recording material along the image bearing belt between the second roller and the third roller, and a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image on the image bearing belt onto the recording material conveyed to the conveyance path.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 10A of the invention has gate electrodes G of TFTs, scan lines 16, and auxiliary capacitor electrodes 18a, which are coated with a first insulating film 27 composed of a thick insulating layer 25 and thinned insulating layer 26. A part above the auxiliary capacitor electrodes 18a is coated only with the thinned insulating layer 26, and drain electrodes D are extended on the first insulating film 27, which is not thinned, so as to coat the thinned insulating layer 26. On a second insulating film 28 provided between the pixel electrodes 20 and the drain electrodes D, contact holes 30 are formed at portions above the drain electrodes D on the first insulating film 27, which is not thinned, above the auxiliary capacitor electrodes 18a, and via the contact holes 30, the pixels 20 and the drain electrodes D are electrically coupled to each other.

Abstract: An inkjet printer having: recording head 1 including a plurality of nozzles; defective nozzle detection means 8 for detecting a defective nozzle from which ink droplets are not ejected for each of the of aforesaid recording head 1; a determination means for determining a level of a defective nozzle occurrence situation that is detected by aforesaid defective nozzle detection means 8; and an operation control means for controlling the execution of operations of a printer based on the determination result in aforesaid determination means.

Abstract: A positive photosensitive composition comprises: a polymer compound having an acid-decomposable structure on a terminal of the polymer compound; and a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic ray or radiation.

Abstract: A foot depressing parking brake apparatus including a brake pedal main body 3 pivotably supported by a support shaft 2, a ratchet plate 4 having ratchet teeth 4b and attached to the brake pedal main body 3, a ratchet pole 6 rotatably attached to a pivot pin 5 and constituting a shaft hole inserted with the pivot pin 5 by a long hole 7, and a toggle spring 10 for exerting a turning force to the ratchet pole 6, wherein a brake operating state in which a claw portion 6a of the ratchet pole 6 is brought in mesh with the ratchet teeth 4b of the ratchet plate 4 and a brake releasing state in which the meshing is released are realized.

Abstract: A fail bit map generation device quickly generating an FBM identifies an abnormal address from a first mismatch detection cycle number obtained in a shipment test and shipment sequence information used in the shipment test. The fail bit map generation device generates a bit identifying pattern that does not perform reading and writing at an address determined as being normal in the shipment test to compensate for read data information that is insufficient for generating the FBM. The fail bit map generation device identifies an abnormal bit from a second mismatch detection cycle number obtained by a tester with the bit identifying pattern and generates the FBM from the abnormal bit and the abnormal address.

Abstract: A compressor having a housing formed by a plurality of housing members that are connected together is disclosed. The compressor is configured in such a manner that refrigerant is compressed in the housing and discharged to the exterior. Each of the housing members contains 9 to 17 percent by mass of Si, 3.5 to 6 percent by mass of Cu, 0.2 to 1.2 percent by mass of Mg, 0.2 to 1.5 percent by mass of Fe, 0 to 1 percent by mass of Mn, 0.5 percent by mass or less of Ni, and a remaining portion containing Al and unavoidable impurities. It is preferred that the average hardness of each housing member is adjusted to HV130 to HV170 through solution heating in which the housing member is maintained at the treatment temperature of 450° C. to 510° C. for 0.5 hours or longer, followed by water quenching, and then by aging treatment in which the housing member is maintained at the treatment temperature of 170° C. to 230° C. for one to twenty-four hours after the c housing member is cast.

Abstract: An auxiliary capacitance line and a terminal portion of a liquid crystal display device are made of an Al or Al alloy layer and an Mo layer. The edge portions of a lower auxiliary capacitance electrode and the terminal portion are sequentially coated with a first insulating film, a second insulating film that is thinner than the first insulating film, and a third insulating film. The lower auxiliary capacitance electrode is coated with the second insulating film, and an upper auxiliary capacitance electrode is laid on the surface of the second insulating film on the lower auxiliary capacitance electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display 10 of the invention has a transparent substrate 11 on which are provided multiple signal lines 17, scan lines 16 and auxiliary capacity lines 18, plus TFTs and pixel electrodes 20 that are electrically coupled to the TFTs' drain electrodes D. The auxiliary capacity lines 18 are formed with an Al—Nd alloy layer coated with a layer of molybdenum. Each pixel region, except for the auxiliary capacity lower electrode 18a on the auxiliary capacity line 18, is coated over by a first insulating film 25 and by a second insulating film 26 that is thinner than the first insulating film 25. Further, the auxiliary capacity lower electrodes 18a are coated over by the second insulating film 26, and auxiliary capacity upper electrodes 18b are provided on the surface of the second insulating film 26 at the auxiliary capacity lower electrodes 18a.