Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) sheet that achieves both low initial adhesiveness and strong adhesiveness upon use and has excellent transparency of the PSA layer. The PSA sheet provided herein includes a PSA layer having a haze value of 1.0% or less. The PSA sheet is configured so that a pressure-sensitive adhesive strength N1, after the PSA layer is attached to a stainless steel plate and left at 23° C. for 30 minutes, is 1.5 N/20 mm or less, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive strength N2, after the PSA layer is attached to a stainless steel plate and heated at 80° C. for 5 minutes, is 10.0 N/20 mm or more.

Abstract: A disclosed brake lining includes first and second friction member blocks, fastening members, spring members disposed in the fastening members, and a base plate. Each of the first friction member blocks including friction members is elastically fastened to the base plate by two of the fastening members that pass through the spring member and a first back plate. The two of the fastening members are disposed along a circumference of a circle centered around an axle. Each of the second friction member blocks including friction members is elastically fastened to the base plate by three of the fastening members that pass through the spring member and a second back plate. Two of the fastening members lying on opposite ends of each of the second friction member blocks are disposed along a circumference of a circle around the axle.

Abstract: A core discharge device is provided for discharging a sand core from a cast material in which the sand core contains a binder having water glass. The core discharge device includes a humidified gas supply device that supplies humidified gas to the sand core inside the cast molded article. The humidified gas is a gas to which humidity has been added and from which droplets have been removed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) sheet that achieves, in the form having a support substrate, both low initial adhesiveness and strong adhesiveness during use. The PSA sheet provided in this application includes a support substrate and a PSA layer laminated on at least one side of the support substrate. The PSA layer has a thickness of 3 ?m or more but less than 100 ?m. The support substrate has a thickness of 30 ?m or more. The PSA sheet is configured so that a relationship between an elastic modulus Et? [MPa] of the PSA sheet and a thickness Ts [mm] of the support substrate fulfils the following formula: 0.1 [N·mm]<Et?×(Ts)3. The adhesive strength N2 after the PSA layer is attached to a stainless steel plate (SUS304BA plate) and heated at 80° C. for 5 minutes is 20 times or more of an adhesive strength N1 after the PSA layer is attached to a stainless steel plate (SUS304BA plate) and left at 23° C. for 30 minutes.

Abstract: This brake lining includes: a plurality of friction members which are arranged to be spaced from each other, each of the friction members having a front surface that is to face a sliding surface of a brake disk; a back board fastened to a back surface of each of the friction members; a base plate that supports each of the friction members at a region including a center portion of each friction member; and an elastic member disposed between the base plate and the back board, on a back surface side of each friction member. Two friction members that are adjacent to each other are taken as a pair, and the back board is fastened to each of the pairs of friction members. In each pair of friction members, the two friction members are arranged along the circumferential direction of the brake disk.

Abstract: The electrolyte membrane of the present disclosure includes a phase A forming a matrix phase, and a phase B. The phase B is continuous from a first principal surface of the electrolyte membrane to a second principal surface of the electrolyte membrane opposite to the first principal surface. The phase B includes a graft polymer having a main chain and a graft chain. The graft chain has a functional group having anion-exchange ability. The main chain preferably has no functional group having anion-exchange ability. The electrolyte membrane of the present disclosure can reliably maintain the function as a separation membrane even when decomposition reaction by a peroxide occurs.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first memory cell; a second memory cell; a first bit line connected to the first memory cell; a second bit line connected to the second memory cell; a first word line connected to the first memory cell and the second memory cell; a first circuit configured to control a connection between the first bit line and a first node; and a second circuit configured to control a connection between the second bit line and the first node.

Abstract: A brake lining for a railroad car has a frictional surface on a brake disc that is pressed by a brake caliper. Friction bodies are pressed against the frictional surface of the brake disc and a back plate is mounted to the caliper to support the friction bodies. Each of the friction bodies is formed with a friction material which contacts the brake disc frictional surface, and has a base plate attached on the back plate side of the friction material. The base plate has a protrusion formed on its back side. On the friction body side of the back plate there is formed a groove which contacts the protrusion formed on the base plate. A disc spring or a spherical-seated structure is disposed between the base plate of each friction body and the back plate. Friction bodies are prevented from rotating at their attached places, without adding new components.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to identify a novel gene that effectively increases plant biomass and to provide said gene as well as techniques utilizing the same. This invention provides a nucleic acid encoding a protein, wherein the protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 and an amino acid sequence having at least 25% identity or at least 75% similarity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:7 or 11, and has an activity to increase plant biomass, as well as techniques utilizing the same.

Abstract: A core discharge device is provided for discharging a sand core from a cast material in which the sand core contains a binder having water glass. The core discharge device comprises a humidified gas supply device that supplies humidified gas, to which humidity has been added, to the sand core inside the cast molded article.

Abstract: Provided is a resin including a copolymer having a first structural unit and/or second structural unit and a structural unit having a polar group. R1, R2, R5, and R6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, A1 is a saturated carbon chain having 3 to 7 carbon atoms or a structure resulting from substitution of a heteroatom for a part of the carbon atoms of the saturated carbon chain, m and n are each independently 0 or 1, and X1 and X2 are each independently a halide ion, a hydroxide ion, or an anion of an organic or inorganic acid.

Abstract: Provided is an anion-exchange membrane including: a substrate composed of a film of ultrahigh molecular weight polyolefin; and a graft chain having the following structural unit. L1 to L5 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkanol group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a specific functional group including an anion-exchange group, and an example of the functional group is —Z2-M1-Z1(R1)(R2)(R3). R1 to R3 are directly bonded to Z1 and are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an alkanol group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms. M1 is a linear hydrocarbon chain having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, Z1 is a nitrogen atom or a phosphorus atom, and Z2 is a nitrogen atom bonded to one hydrogen atom, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom. L6 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group.

Abstract: Provided is an ionomer resin including a copolymer containing the following first structural unit. L1 to L5 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkanol group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a specific functional group including an anion-exchange group, and an example of the functional group is —Z2-M1-Z1(R1)(R2)(R3). R1 to R3 are directly bonded to Z1 and are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an alkanol group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms. M1 is a linear hydrocarbon chain having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, Z1 is a nitrogen atom or a phosphorus atom, and Z2 is a nitrogen atom bonded to one hydrogen atom, an oxygen atom, or a sulfur atom. L6 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or an ethyl group.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to elucidate the mechanism of plant growth regulation by brassinosteroid and the mechanism of transfer of the BIL1 protein that is the master transcription factor of brassinosteroid signaling into the nucleus, discover new factors involved in the mechanisms, and using the factors for plant growth regulation, thereby increasing production of plant biomass or crop. According to the present invention, a transgenic plant, wherein expression of the BSS1 gene having activity to bind to a BIL1 protein to inhibit the transfer of the BIL1 protein into the nucleus so as to down-regulate brassinosteroid signaling is suppressed or promoted, and a method for regulating plant growth, wherein expression of the BSS1 gene in a plant body is suppressed or promoted, are provided.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a lead-free solder alloy includes 2% by mass or more and 3.1% by mass or less of Ag, more than 0% by mass and 1% by mass or less of Cu, 1% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less of Sb, 3.1% by mass or more and 4.5% by mass or less of Bi, 0.01% by mass or more and 0.25% by mass or less of Ni, and Sn.

Abstract: The present invention concerns: a plant growth-promoting agent comprising a compound represented by Formula (I) or a salt thereof: wherein Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, NZ represents a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring group or an acyclic nitrogen-containing group having a partial structure of the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring group, n is 0, 1, or 2, R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-3-alkyl group, a cyano group, or a carboxyl group, R1 and R2 may together form an oxo group, and when n is 2, R1 or R2 may be the same or different; and a method for promoting plant growth using the plant growth-promoting agent.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first memory cell; a second memory cell; a first bit line connected to the first memory cell; a second bit line connected to the second memory cell; a first word line connected to the first memory cell and the second memory cell; a first circuit configured to control a connection between the first bit line and a first node; and a second circuit configured to control a connection between the second bit line and the first node.

Abstract: This invention relates to an agent for inducing a callus comprising a compound represented by Formula (I) or a hydrolysis product of an amide bond thereof: wherein Ar1 represents phenyl substituted with substituent or substituents selected from alkoxy and methylenedioxy; Ar2 represents phenyl substituted with halogen; R1 and R2 each represent hydrogen, alkyl, cyano, or carboxyl; R1 and R2 may together form oxo; R3 to R10 each represent hydrogen or methyl; and R3 and R4, R5 and R6, R7 and R8, and/or R9 and R10 may together form oxo; a method for inducing a callus and a method for plant transformation using such agent for inducing a callus.

Abstract: The membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of the present invention is a fuel cell MEA including an anion exchange membrane and a catalyst layer disposed on the surface of the membrane. In the MEA, the anion exchange membrane is an anion-conducting polymer electrolyte membrane in which a graft chain having anion conducting ability is graft-polymerized on a substrate formed of a skived film of ultra-high molecular weight polyolefin. This MEA has various superior properties for achieving an improvement in the power output of an anion exchange PEFC compared to conventional MEAs.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first voltage generator, a second voltage generator, a first MOS transistor, and a controller. The first voltage generator outputs a first voltage to a first node. The second voltage generator outputs a second voltage to a second node. The first MOS transistor is capable of short-circuiting the first node and second node. The controller performs a control operation to short-circuit the first node and second node by turning on the first MOS transistor. The controller controls a period in which the first MOS transistor is kept in an on state based on time.