Abstract: In an MMC-based power conversion device, a control device generates, for each leg circuit, a first voltage command value not based on circulating current circulating between a plurality of leg circuits and a second voltage command value based on the circulating current. A plurality of individual controllers are provided respectively corresponding to a plurality of converter cells and generate a gate control signal for controlling turning on and off of a switching element of the corresponding converter cell, based on the first voltage command value and the second voltage command value. When generating the gate control signal using pulse width modulation, each individual controller modulates a carrier signal in accordance with the second voltage command value such that the pulse width of the gate control signal changes in accordance with the second voltage command value.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a switchback roller, and a re-conveying device. The re-conveying device includes a guide configured to change a conveying direction of a sheet conveyed by the switchback roller from a vertical direction to a horizontal direction and to guide the sheet in a width direction. The guide has a first guide surface and a second guide surface. The first guide surface and the second guide surface define a conveying path therebetween. The second guide surface is located closer to a center of a curvature of the conveying path than the first guide surface in a radial direction of the curvature. The first guide surface has a first area being planar and a second area downstream of the first area. The first area is configured to be contacted by a leading end of the sheet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a switchback roller, and a re-conveying device. The re-conveying device includes a guide configured to change a conveying direction of a sheet conveyed by the switchback roller from a vertical direction to a horizontal direction and to guide the sheet in a width direction. The guide has a first guide surface and a second guide surface. The first guide surface and the second guide surface define a conveying path therebetween. The second guide surface is located closer to a center of a curvature of the conveying path than the first guide surface in a radial direction of the curvature. The first guide surface has a first area being planar and a second area downstream of the first area. The first area is configured to be contacted by a leading end of the sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a carrier tape for a foam material which exhibits satisfactory holding properties to a flexible foam material, exhibits satisfactory removability without causing fracture of the foam material, and has good peel properties upon picking up. The carrier tape for a foam material includes a substrate and, arranged on one side thereof, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The carrier tape has a 180-degree peel strength of 0.15 N/20 mm or more at a tensile speed of 300 mm/min with respect to a foam (trade name “SCF100”, supplied by Nitto Denko Corporation). The carrier tape also has a 180-degree peel strength of 0.30 N/20 mm or less at a tensile speed of 10 m/min with respect to the foam (trade name “SCF100”, supplied by Nitto Denko Corporation).

Abstract: An adjustment device of a rotary machine including a movable base formed rotatable around an axis, vibration sensors formed so that the sensors can measure amplitudes of longitudinal vibration and transverse vibration of the rotary machine, an adjustment weight to be arranged on the movable base, and a PC including a control section for calculating a position and weight of the adjustment weight, a storage section, and an amplifier are provided, an approximate expression is obtained by the PC from an amplitude measured by the vibration sensor, and a predetermined function, an optimum change amount x and position ? of the adjustment weight are calculated from the approximate expression, whereby the adjustment weight is arranged.

Abstract: An image-forming device includes an electrophotographic image-forming section, a receptacle, a detecting unit, a shielding member, a drive mechanism. The electrophotographic image-forming section transfers developer onto a recording sheet to form developer image thereon. The receptacle collects developer not transferred onto the recording sheet. The receptacle includes a detection portion. The detecting unit detects light passing through the detection portion. The shielding member is movably disposed in the detection portion to move between a first position blocking the light to be detected by the detecting unit and a second position allowing the light to pass through the detection portion. The drive mechanism moves the shielding member between the first position and the second position in a direction different from a vertical direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protective film for an automotive wheel, including a base layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein a trouser tear strength in the machine direction (MID) of the protective film is 3 N or more, and an adhesive force (adherend: a panel with an acrylic clear coating, after standing for 48 hours under the conditions of 23° C. and 50% RH) of the protective film is 4.9 N/25 mm or more at a peeling speed of 0.3 m/minute, and is 19.6 N/25 mm or less at a peeling speed of 30 m/minute.

Abstract: Provided is a protective film for an automotive wheel having excellent performances, which has excellent weatherability and can sufficiently prevent a decrease in an adhesive force and the like. The protective film for an automotive wheel is a protective film for an automotive wheel, including a base layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing at least a (meth)acryl-based polymer and a crosslinking agent, the (meth)acryl-based polymer contains a (meth)acryl-based monomer having an alkyl group of 1 to 14 carbon atoms as a main component, and contains, as other monomer components, at least a hydroxyl group-containing monomer as a constituent component, the content of the crosslinking agent is from 0.1 to 6 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the acryl-based polymer, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a gel fraction of 60 to 95% by weight.

Abstract: Provided is a protective film for an automotive wheel having excellent performances, which can sufficiently prevent scratching of the wheel surface and staining, and also the generation of rust at a disc brake inside the wheel during a period until delivery of an automobile; and can be easily peeled. The protective film for an automotive wheel of the present invention is a protective film for an automotive wheel, including a base layer and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the protective film is bonded onto the back surface of the base layer of the protective film, and an adhesive force to the back surface after storage at 50° C. for 24 hours in an state of being bonded is from 0.1 to 2 N/20 mm at any peeling speed of 0.3 m/minute, 10 m/minute and 30 m/minute.

Abstract: Provided is a re-peeling pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a surface protecting material for an adherend having a photocatalytic layer, comprising: a (meth)acryl-based polymer including, as monomer units, 50 to 99.9% by weight of (A) at least one acrylate-based monomer represented by the general formula (1): CH2?CR1COOR2 wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 14 carbon atoms, 0.1 to 10% by weight of (B) a functional-group-containing vinyl-based monomer, and 0 to 49.9% by weight of (C) a vinyl-based monomer copolymerizable with the component (A) and/or the component (B); and (D) a surfactant having a molecular weight of 150 to 5000, the amount of the component (D) being from 0.01 to 30 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the (meth)acryl-based polymer. The re-peeling pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is excellent in re-peeling property, contact-angle-recoverability, and weather resistance.

Abstract: A waste collecting device includes a first box including a top surface having a first opening, a bottom surface opposed to the top surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface and having a second opening, wherein the top surface, the bottom surface, and the side surfaces define a space allowing waste to be accommodated therein; a second box including a top surface, a bottom surface opposed to the top surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface and having a third opening, the third opening being in communication with the second opening; and a sending unit disposed in the first box and configured to send the waste in a direction away from the second box.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a near infrared light absorbable dye composition which absorbs near infrared light efficiently, has a high visible light transmittance, is excellent in light resistance, heat resistance and wet heat resistance, is hardly deteriorated in durability even when blended so as to have an absorption in a wide range of 800 to 1100 nm, and requires a low cost for synthesis and isolation thereof upon production, and provide a near infrared light absorbable filter containing the same.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a thiomorpholine compound represented by the formula [I]: wherein Ring A represents an optionally substituted benzene ring; Ring B represents an optionally substituted benzene ring; R1 represents hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted amino group, an optionally substituted alkyl group, a substituted carbonyl group or a halogen atom; R2 represents hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group; and R3a and R3b may be the same or different from each other, and each represent hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, or combined to each other at the both ends thereof to form an alkylene group, and n is an integer of 1 or 2, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: A waste collecting device includes a first box including a top surface having a first opening, a bottom surface opposed to the top surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface and having a second opening, wherein the top surface, the bottom surface, and the side surfaces define a space allowing waste to be accommodated therein; a second box including a top surface, a bottom surface opposed to the top surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface and having a third opening, the third opening being in communication with the second opening; and a sending unit disposed in the first box and configured to send the waste in a direction away from the second box.

Abstract: An adjustment device of a rotary machine including a movable base formed rotatable around an axis, vibration sensors formed so that the sensors can measure amplitudes of longitudinal vibration and transverse vibration of the rotary machine, an adjustment weight to be arranged on the movable base, and a PC including a control section for calculating a position and weight of the adjustment weight, a storage section, and an amplifier are provided, an approximate expression is obtained by the PC from an amplitude measured by the vibration sensor, and a predetermined function, an optimum change amount x and position ? of the adjustment weight are calculated from the approximate expression, whereby the adjustment weight is arranged.

Abstract: An image-forming device includes an electrophotographic image-forming section, a receptacle, a detecting unit, a shielding member, a drive mechanism. The electrophotographic image-forming section transfers developer onto a recording sheet to form developer image thereon. The receptacle collects developer not transferred onto the recording sheet. The receptacle includes a detection portion. The detecting unit detects light passing through the detection portion. The shielding member is movably disposed in the detection portion to move between a first position blocking the light to be detected by the detecting unit and a second position allowing the light to pass through the detection portion. The drive mechanism moves the shielding member between the first position and the second position in a direction different from a vertical direction.

Abstract: Provided is a re-peeling pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for a surface protecting material for an adherend having a photocatalytic layer, comprising: a (meth)acryl-based polymer including, as monomer units, 50 to 99.9% by weight of (A) at least one acrylate-based monomer represented by the general formula (1): CH2?CR1COOR2 wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 14 carbon atoms, 0.1 to 10% by weight of (B) a functional-group-containing vinyl-based monomer, and 0 to 49.9% by weight of (C) a vinyl-based monomer copolymerizable with the component (A) and/or the component (B); and (D) a surfactant having a molecular weight of 150 to 5000, the amount of the component (D) being from 0.01 to 30 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the (meth)acryl-based polymer. The re-peeling pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is excellent in re-peeling property, contact-angle-recoverability, and weather resistance.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a piperidine compound represented by the formula [I]: wherein Ring A is an optionally substituted benzene ring, Ring B is an optionally substituted benzene ring, R1 is hydrogen atom or a substituent for amino group, R2 is hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted amino group, an optionally substituted alkyl group, a substituted carbonyl group or a halogen atom, Z is oxygen atom or —N(R3)—, R3 is hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, R4a and R4b may be the same or different, and each is hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, or may be bonded to each other at the both ends to form an alkylene group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which has an excellent tachykinin receptor antagonistic action.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a piperidine compound represented by the formula [I]: wherein Ring A represents an optionally substituted benzene ring, Ring B represents an optionally substituted benzene ring, R1 represents an optionally substituted hydoxyl group, a substituted thiol group, a substituted sulfonyl group, etc., or a group represented by the formula: R11 represents a substituted carbonyl group or a substituted sulfonyl group, R12 represents hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, R2 represents hydrogen atom, etc., Z represent oxygen atom or a group represented by —N(R3)—, R3 represents an optionally substituted alkyl group, etc., R4a represents an optionally substituted alkyl group, R4b represents an optionally substituted alkyl group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having an excellent tachykinin receptor antagonistic action.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a piperidine compound represented by the formula [I]: wherein Ring A is an optionally substituted benzene ring, Ring B is an optionally substituted benzene ring, R1 is hydrogen atom or a substituent for amino group, R2 is hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted amino group, an optionally substituted alkyl group, a substituted carbonyl group or a halogen atom, Z is oxygen atom or —N(R3)—, R3 is hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, R4a and R4b may be the same or different, and each is hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, or may be bonded to each other at the both ends to form an alkylene group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which has an excellent tachykinin receptor antagonistic action.