Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a spunbond nonwoven fabric having low pressure loss, high collecting performance, and excellent processability and an air filter fabricated using the spunbond nonwoven fabric, the spunbond nonwoven fabric including fibers formed of a polyolefin-based resin, in which an average single fiber diameter of the fibers is 6.5 ?m or more and 22.0 ?m or less, a hindered amine-based compound represented by Formula (1) is contained at 0.1% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less, a melt flow rate (MFR) of the nonwoven fabric is 32 g/10 minutes or more and 850 g/10 minutes or less, and the nonwoven fabric is processed into an electret.

Abstract: A method for producing polytetrafluoroethylene, which includes polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium in the presence of a nucleating agent and a hydrocarbon anionic surfactant to obtain polytetrafluoroethylene. A total amount of the nucleating agent and the hydrocarbon anionic surfactant at the initiation of polymerization is more than 50 ppm based on the aqueous medium.

Abstract: A body part of a camera includes a display that is at least partially flexible. A display part of the display includes a first display part and a second display part that are integrally formed. A hinge part that connects the first display part to the second display part to be rotatable relative to each other is provided in the vicinity of a bendable part located at a boundary of each display part. The display is bendable in accordance with rotation of the hinge part with the bendable part as a starting point. An operation member is disposed on a back surface of the second display part, and the operation member is exposed to the outside in a bent state of the display.

Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a main body having a cylindrical or substantially cylindrical shape extending in a first direction and including first and second inner electrodes alternately laminated together with dielectric layers interposed therebetween, a pair of first outer electrodes on two end surfaces of the main body in the first direction and electrically connected to the first inner electrodes, and a second outer electrode electrically connected to the second inner electrodes. The main body includes a projecting portion projecting in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction at a position between the pair of first outer electrodes. The second outer electrode is provided on one surface of the projecting portion viewable when viewed in the first direction.

Abstract: A motion state monitoring system, a training support system, a motion state monitoring method, and a program capable of suitably managing measurement results according to an attaching direction of a sensor are provided. A motion state monitoring system according to the present disclosure monitors a motion state of a target part of a subject's body. The motion state monitoring system includes an acquisition unit, an attaching direction detection unit, and a control processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires sensing information of a sensor attached to the target part. The attaching direction detection unit detects an attaching direction of the sensor. The control processing unit outputs information related to the sensing information in association with the attaching direction.

Abstract: A stud for an outsole includes: an outer tubular portion located on an outsole body and having a tubular shape; and a core portion located inside the outer tubular portion. The outer tubular portion is integral with the outsole body with no seam between the outer tubular portion and the outsole body. An inner wall surface of the outer tubular portion surrounds, and is in contact with, a side surface of the core portion. This configuration reduces separation of the stud from the outsole and firmly holds the stud on the outsole.

Abstract: An endoscopic treatment device includes a hollow tube; an electrode; and an insulative support member. In a radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the hollow tube, the insulative support member is radially outward of the electrode and the hollow tube is radially outward of the insulative support member.

Abstract: A sole reference posture is determined such that a straight reference line connects a toe-tip position and a rearmost end position of a sole top surface, a path length measured along the sole top surface from the origin of the rearmost end position to the toe-tip position is L, an intersection point of a sole bottom surface and a line crossing a position of 0.45×L and orthogonal to the reference line is position C, and the sole is in contact with the ground at position C. In the reference posture, the sole bottom surface is separated from the ground at a heel portion and a toe portion, and an inequality ??5 is satisfied, wherein ? is an angle between a straight line connecting a heel central position of 0.15×L with a metatarsophalangeal joints position of 0.68×L and the ground.

Abstract: A sole for a shoe includes a sole body extending longitudinally from a heel portion to a toe portion and a curved plate provided at the sole body and extending longitudinally along the sole body. A compressive rigidity of the sole body is lowest at a metatarsophalangeal joint position. The sole body includes a sole forefoot top part disposed above the curved plate at the forefoot portion and a sole forefoot bottom part disposed below the curved plate at the forefoot portion. The compressive rigidity of the sole body is relatively low at the sole forefoot bottom part.

Abstract: To achieve a favorable feeling particularly during running. A sole structure includes a first midsole portion, a second midsole portion disposed below the first midsole part, and a support plate stacked between the first midsole portion and the second midsole portion, disposed at a location corresponding at least to a hindfoot portion H, and having a higher rigidity than the first midsole portion and the second midsole portion. The support plate includes: a base portion having a corrugated shape with at least one peak and at least one valley; and first and second support portions having a corrugated shape and branched apart from each other from a peripheral edge portion located on an inner side of the base portion toward the first midsole portion and the second midsole portion, respectively. The valley of the second support portion is disposed at a location corresponding to a sustentaculum tali.

Abstract: To achieve a favorable feeling particularly during running. A midsole includes: a first midsole portion; and a second midsole portion stacked on the first midsole portion in a thickness direction of the midsole and made of a material having a lower hardness than a material forming the first midsole portion. In a cutting plane when the midsole is cut along a foot width direction at a location corresponding to the sustentaculum tali of a foot of a wearer, the first midsole portion and the second midsole portion have a relatively-low hardness at a location corresponding to the calcaneus of the wearer, and a relatively-high hardness in an area ranging from a location corresponding to the sustentaculum tali to a medial instep side.

Abstract: A treatment device includes a flexible sheath; a wire configured to be inserted into the sheath; a first treatment member disposed at distal side from the wire; a second treatment member disposed at a distal side from the first treatment member; and a protection member configured to cover the second treatment member when the first treatment member projects from a distal end of the sheath.

Abstract: A shoe upper body of a shoe has a stretchable portion made of a stretchable material. The stretchable portion forms a region of the shoe upper body including a portion corresponding to the center of each of the medial malleolus and the lateral malleolus of a foot of a wearer of the shoe and including a position of an ankle opening. The stretchable portion is configured so as to be deformed from a non-stretched state to a stretched state and elastically recover from the stretched state to the non-stretched state.

Abstract: A treatment device includes a flexible sheath; a control wire that can move axially within the flexible sheath; a first treatment member connected to a distal end of the control wire; a second treatment member connected to a distal end of the first treatment member; and a protection member that covers the second treatment member depending on the mode of operation. When the treatment device is in a first treatment mode, the second treatment member projects from a distal end of the protection member. When the treatment device is in a second treatment mode, the first treatment member projects from the distal end of the flexible sheath, and the protection member covers the second treatment member.

Abstract: The sole structure includes a sole body comprising a wavy structure and a midsole, and an outsole disposed below the sole body and having a ground contact surface. The wavy structure comprises a plurality of wavy extending parts that respectively extend in a wavy shape in the foot-length direction and that are disposed side by side in the foot-width direction, and a connecting portion that connects the wavy extending parts respectively in the foot-width direction. A thickness center plane of the wavy structure extends curvedly in the vertically direction toward the foot-length direction. The midsole is formed of a soft elastic member and includes a lower surface and an upper surface. The lower surface has a contact surface that the wavy structure is in contact with. The upper surface is fitted to an upper of a shoe.

Abstract: A sole structure includes: a base having a plate-like shape, and disposed near a ground; a plurality of pillars protruding upward from the base, and spaced apart from each other, the pillars being elastically deformable; and an upper plate portion disposed above the base. The pillars are disposed between the base and the upper plate portion with lower end portions of the pillars fixed to the base and with upper end portions of the pillars fixed to the upper plate portion.

Abstract: A treatment device includes a flexible sheath; a control wire that can move axially within the flexible sheath; a first treatment member connected to a distal end of the control wire; a second treatment member connected to a distal end of the first treatment member; and a protection member that covers the second treatment member depending on the mode of operation. When the treatment device is in a first treatment mode, the second treatment member projects from a distal end of the protection member. When the treatment device is in a second treatment mode, the first treatment member projects from the distal end of the flexible sheath, and the protection member covers the second treatment member.

Abstract: In the sole, inequalities, m2?m1, m1?f and m1?h are satisfied, wherein the rearmost end of the foot-sole-contact-side surface is set to the origin, the path measured along the surface from the origin to the tip of the toe is set to L, the sole thicknesses at the positions of Sh(0.16×L), Sm2 {(0.3-0.5)×L}, Sm1{(0.4?0.6)×L} and Sf(0.7×L) are set to h, m2, m1 and f, respectively. An inequality, ?2>?1 is satisfied, wherein the angle between the line connecting the positions Sm1, Sh and the horizontal plane is set to ?1, and the angle between the line connecting the positions Sm1?, Sh? and the horizontal plane is set to ?2, in which the position where the vertical lines drawn from the positions Sm1, Sh cross the ground-contact surface are set to Sm1?, Sh?, respectively. The ground-contact surface has a downwardly convexly curved shape at the forefoot region.

Abstract: The midsole structure for an athletic shoe includes a midsole body made of foamed resin, and a sheet composite extending at least from the ball of the foot portion to the toe portion in the midsole body and comprising a plurality of foamed rubber sheets that are overlapped and shifted in the longitudinal direction. The sheet composite comprises a single sheet at the toe portion and a plurality of sheets at the ball of the foot portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a sole structure member includes: selecting at least one first sub-member from an optional group consisting of a plurality of types of first sub-members premolded such that their respective recesses have different configurations; inserting, and housing, the at least one first sub-member selected from the optional group in a housing; and molding the first and second sub-members so as to be integrated together through injection of the second resin material heated to melt, from a gate into a molding space and a channel.