Abstract: Provided are a plate holding device, a plate detaching apparatus, a plate attaching apparatus and a plate attaching-detaching apparatus which are capable of reliably attaching and/or detaching a plate with respect to a plate-receiving metal frame. The plate holding device comprises: a plurality of holding members for holding a plate for a sliding nozzle device; widening and narrowing mechanisms to selectively widen and narrow a distance between the holding members; a pressing unit for pressing a central region of the plate when the plate is held by the holding members; and a force sensor for detecting a force received by the holding members and/or the pressing unit from the held plate. The plate holding device is configured to be mounted to a distal end of a robot arm.

Abstract: A mounting device capable of smoothly mounting a drive unit being in a hanging state to a sliding nozzle device, using a manipulator. The mounting device is mounted to a distal end of a manipulator to mount a drive unit whose upper end is connected to a suspending device, to a holder of a sliding nozzle device. The mounting device includes: a holding part for holding an upper portion or central portion (to-be-held plate) of the drive unit; and a contact part which is contactable with a lower portion (to-be-contacted part) of the drive unit when mounting the drive unit to the holder.

Abstract: A sliding nozzle device capable of allowing a maintenance robot to reliably and accurately recognize the position thereof. The sliding nozzle device includes: a fixed metal frame; and a sliding metal frame slidably provided to the fixed metal frame. The fixed metal frame is provided with a mark block for allowing a maintenance robot to recognize the position thereof. More specifically, the mark block is provided to protrude from a side surface or bottom surface of the fixed metal frame toward the sliding metal frame, at a position free from interference with the sliding metal frame during sliding.

Abstract: An opening-closing apparatus capable of, when using a robot arm to selectively open and close a component of a sliding nozzle device, reliably opening and closing the component to respective given positions. The apparatus comprises: a hand-like distal module engageable with an openable-closable component of a sliding nozzle device; a force sensor to detect a force received by the module; and a robot arm to which the module and the sensor are mounted. The robot arm is controllably operated to: move the module toward the component of the sliding nozzle device and engage the module with the component of the sliding nozzle device; then move the module to move the component, if the absolute value of the force detected by the sensor is equal to or less than a given threshold; and stop the movement of the module, when the absolute value of the force detected by the sensor reaches the threshold.

Abstract: A coating composition includes a polyisocyanate component and a polyol component. The polyisocyanate component includes an aromatic ring-containing isocyanate. The polyol component includes an acrylic polyol. The acrylic polyol is a polymer of a monomer composition containing a hydroxyl group-containing polymerizable monomer and a carboxyl group-containing polymerizable monomer and containing no (meth)acrylonitrile.

Abstract: In an ingredient for a secondary cell separator coating material including a water-soluble polymer having a repeating unit derived from methacrylamide and a repeating unit derived from a carboxy group-containing vinyl monomer, a content ratio of the repeating unit derived from the methacrylamide is 60% by mass or more and 97% by mass or less, and a content ratio of the repeating unit derived from the carboxy group-containing vinyl monomer is 3% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less with respect to the total amount of the water-soluble polymer; a weight average molecular weight of the water-soluble polymer is 20000 or more and 200000 or less; and a glass transition temperature of the water-soluble polymer is 200° C. or more.

Abstract: In an ingredient for a secondary cell separator coating material including a core shell particle including a core layer containing a first polymer and a shell layer covering the first polymer and including a second polymer, the first polymer has a repeating unit derived from alkyl (meth)acrylate; the second polymer has a repeating unit derived from (meth)acrylamide of 40 to 97% by mass, and a repeating unit derived from a carboxy group-containing vinyl monomer of 3 to 60% by mass; and a ratio of the second polymer to the first polymer is 4 to 250.

Abstract: A water-based inkjet ink composition comprising composite resin fine particles composed of a first resin and a second resin, and having an SP value of from 9.0 to 12.0 (cal/cm3)1/2, wherein the SP value of the second resin is higher than the SP value of the first resin, and the first resin has a higher mass than the second resin.

Abstract: A water-based inkjet ink composition comprising composite resin fine particles composed of a first resin and a second resin, and having an SP value of from 9.0 to 12.0 (cal/cm3)1/2, wherein the SP value of the second resin is higher than the SP value of the first resin, and the first resin has a higher mass than the second resin.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion resin composition contains a first polymer produced by polymerizing a first monomer component containing (meth)acrylamide and a second polymer produced by polymerizing a second monomer component containing a carboxy group-containing vinyl monomer, wherein at least a portion of the carboxy group in the second polymer is neutralized.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a white coloring material, polymer particles, and a solvent, the polymer particles satisfying the relationship represented by the following expression (1). Y?0.33X+20??(1) where X is an average particle size D50 (nm) and Y is a melting start temperature (° C.).

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion resin composition contains a first polymer produced by polymerizing a first monomer component containing (meth)acrylamide and a second polymer produced by polymerizing a second monomer component containing a carboxy group-containing vinyl monomer, wherein at least a portion of the carboxy group in the second polymer is neutralized.

Abstract: A composition for a protection layer of a thermal recording material includes emulsion (A) and non-crosslinkable urea compound (B), and emulsion (A) has a pH of 6 or more, and contains copolymer resin (a) produced by copolymerizing reactive monomer component (a?) containing at least a vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group and a vinyl monomer component that is copolymerizable with the vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group.

Abstract: An ink composition includes a white coloring material, polymer particles, and a solvent, the polymer particles satisfying the relationship represented by the following expression (1). Y?0.33X+20??(1) where X is an average particle size D50 (nm) and Y is a melting start temperature (° C.).

Abstract: A composition for a protection layer of a thermal recording material includes emulsion (A) and non-crosslinkable urea compound (B), and emulsion (A) has a pH of 6 or more, and contains copolymer resin (a) produced by copolymerizing reactive monomer component (a?) containing at least a vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group and a vinyl monomer component that is copolymerizable with the vinyl monomer component having a carboxyl group.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording ink composition with good reliability and print quality, a high OD value, and good fixability that affords excellent smear resistance. This object is achieved with the present invention by providing ink jet recording ink composition including at least a self-dispersing pigment and two types of resin particles with mutually different properties. The above-mentioned two types of resin particles are two types of resin particles whose glass transition points, average sizes, minimum film-formation temperatures, zeta potentials, and other such properties are mutually different. The present invention also provides a recording method, wherein the above-mentioned ink composition is used to form an image on a recording medium, and provides recorded matter having an image formed on a recording medium using the above-mentioned ink composition.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an ink jet recording ink composition with good reliability and print quality, a high OD value, and good fixability that affords excellent smear resistance. This object is achieved with the present invention by providing ink jet recording ink composition comprising at least a self-dispersing pigment and two types of resin particles with mutually different properties. The above-mentioned two types of resin particles are two types of resin particles whose glass transition points, average sizes, minimum film-formation temperatures, zeta potentials, and other such properties are mutually different. The present invention also provides a recording method, wherein the above-mentioned ink composition is used to form an image on a recording medium, and provides recorded matter comprising an image formed on a recording medium using the above-mentioned ink composition.

Abstract: An ink composition is provided which can realize an image having excellent rubbing/scratch resistance and waterfastness, is free from a clogged nozzle problem, and enables stable printing. The ink composition comprises a colorant, a fine particle of a polymer, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, the fine particle of the polymer having a film-forming property, a carboxyl group on its surface, and a reactivity with a divalent metal salt such that, when three volumes of an aqueous emulsion, of the fine particle of the polymer, having a fine particle concentration of 0.1% by weight is brought into contact with one volume of an aqueous divalent metal salt solution having a concentration of 1 mol/liter, the time for the transmission of light at a wavelength of 700 nm to be decreased to 50% of the initial transmission is not more than 1×104 sec.

Abstract: A fire-resistant glass comprising:(a) at least two plate-shaped vitreous materials arranged parallel and apart, the sides of the plate-shaped vitreous materials facing each other being treated with a silane coupling agent,(b) a spacer provided between the plate-shaped vitreous materials at their peripheries via an adhesive,(c) a sealing agent adhered to the outer surface of the spacer, and(d) an aqueous gel filled into the space formed by the plate-shaped vitreous materials and the spacer, the aqueous gel comprising a polymer of a particular (meth)acrylamide derivative, a particulate metal oxide, an aqueous medium and an antifreezing agent.This fire-resistant glass has an excellent fire-resistant property; is stable over a long period of time and is unsusceptible to deterioration.

Abstract: A fire-resistant glass comprising:(a) at least two plate-shaped vitreous materials arranged parallel and apart, the sides of the plate-shaped vitreous materials facing each other being treated with a silane coupling agent,(b) a spacer provided between the plate-shaped vitreous materials at their peripheries via an adhesive,(c) a sealing agent adhered to the outer surface of the spacer, and(d) an aqueous gel filled into the space formed by the plate-shaped vitreous materials and the spacer, the aqueous gel comprising a poller of a particular (meth)acrylamide derivative, a particulate metal oxide, an aqueous medium and an antifreezing agent.This fire-resistant glass has an excellent fire-resistant property, is stable over a long period of time and is unsusceptible to deterioration.