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The present invention provides an olefin block copolymer for a viscosity index improver capable of preparing a lubricating oil composition having excellent low temperature properties and excellent balance between viscosity and shear stability, a viscosity index improver and a lubricating oil composition comprising the viscosity index improver. The olefin block copolymer has a Mw/Mn of not more than 1.5, and comprises: (i) a polymer block comprising ethylene and an alpha-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, having a molar ratio (ethylene/alpha-olefin) of ethylene units to alpha-olefin units of from 20/80 to 65/35, a Mw of 50,000 to 2,000,000, and having a slope of an intramolecular composition distribution of absolute value of 0.1 to 0, and (ii) a polymer block comprising ethylene and an alpha-olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, having a molar ratio (ethylene/alpha-olefin) of ethylene units to alpha-olefin units of from 70/30 to 85/15, a Mw of 10,000 to 400,000, and having a slope of an intramolecular composition distribution of absolute value of 0.1 to 0.

A polypropylene resin composition which comprises:(1) 55 to 75% by weight of (A) a polypropylene resin consisting of a mixture of the following polymers (i) and (ii):(i) a propylene-ethylene block copolymer having a propylene homopolymer part which is the first segment and having a propylene-ethylene random copolymer part which is the second segment and(ii) a propylene homopolymer having an intrinsic viscosity [eta]P of 0.8 to 1.8 dl/g as measured in tetralin at 135° C.,(2) 21 to 30% by weight of (B) an ethylene-1-octene copolymer rubber having a melt flow rate (JIS-K-6758 at 190° C.) of 2 to 10 g/10 min and having a 1-octene component content of 20 to 25% by weight, and(3) 5 to 20% by weight of (C) talc having an average particle diameter of not more than 3 mum, wherein when the amount of the second segment contained in the propylene-ethylene block copolymer of the polypropylene resin (A) is designated as (A)' and the ethylene-1-octene copolymer rubber content is designated as (B)', the following expression is satisfied:and when the above composition is subjected to a tensile test according to ASTM D638, it exhibits, an ultimate elongation of at least 400%, and the melt flow rate (JIS-K-6758 at 230° C.) of the composition is at least 30 g/10 min, and an injection-molded article obtained by injection molding the above polypropylene resin composition.

This invention relates to catalyst compositions, methods, and polymers encompassing at least one first Group 4 metallocene compound comprising bridging η⁵-cyclopentadienyl-type ligands, in combination with at least one second Group 4 metallocene with non-bridging η⁵-cyclopentadienyl-type ligands, typically in combination with at least one cocatalyst, and at least one activator. The compositions and methods disclosed herein provide ethylene polymers with a bimodal molecular weight distribution.

A multilayer embedded stressor having a graded dopant profile for use in a semiconductor structure for inducing strain on a device channel region is provided. The inventive multilayer stressor is formed within areas of a semiconductor structure in which source/drain regions are typically located. The inventive multilayer stressor includes a first conformal epi semiconductor layer that is undoped or lightly doped and a second epi semiconductor layer that is highly dopant relative to the first epi semiconductor layer. The first and second epi semiconductor layers each have the same lattice constant, which is different from that of the substrate they are embedded in. The structure including the inventive multilayer embedded stressor achieves a good balance between stress proximity and short channel effects, and even eliminates or substantially reduces any possible defects that are typically generated during formation of the deep source/drain regions.

A stepper includes a base and two stands upwardly extending from a front portion of the base. Two swing arms are respectively pivotally connected to a rear portion of the base due to a pivot structure that is mounted in a corresponding one of the two swing arms. Each swing arm has an endless strap sleeved thereon for user to step thereon. A drive shaft pivotally extends through the pivot structures for driving the straps and supporting the two swing arms. A motor is mounted on the base for driving the drive shaft. A restitution structure is mounted under a corresponding one of the two swing arms for providing a restitution force to the corresponding swing arm after being downward stepped.

A heart preservation chamber is disclosed which comprises a housing, an inclined trough support surface, and inlet and outlet fluid connections for the major heart blood vessels.

The object of the present invention is to provide a rare earth magnet which enables to achieve a good balance between high coercive force and high residual magnetic flux density, and its manufacturing method. The present invention provides a rare earth magnet in which a layered grain boundary phase is formed on a surface or a potion of a grain boundary of Nd₂Fe₁₄B which is a main phase of an R—Fe—B (R is a rare-earth element) based magnet, and wherein the grain boundary phase contains a fluoride compound, and wherein a thickness of the fluoride compound is 10 μm or less, or a thickness of the fluoride compound is from 0.1 μm to 10 μm, and wherein the coverage of the fluoride compound over a main phase particle is 50% or more on average. Moreover, after layering fluoride compound powder, which is formed in plate-like shape, in the grain boundary phase, the rare earth magnet is manufactured by quenching the layered compound after melting it at a vacuum atmosphere at a predetermined temperature, or by heating and pressing the main phase and the fluoride compound to make the fluoride compound into a layered fluoride compound along the grain boundary phase.

The present invention discloses methods for enhancing the wear-resistance of polymers, the resulting polymers, and in vivo implants made from such polymers. One aspect of this invention presents a method whereby a polymer is irradiated, preferably with gamma radiation, then thermally treated, such as by remelting of annealing. The resulting polymeric composition preferably has its most oxidized surface layer removed. Another aspect of the invention presents a general method for optimizing the wear resistance and desirable physical and/or chemical properties of a polymer by crosslinking and thermally treating it. The resulting polymeric compositions is wear-resistant and may be fabricated into an in vivo implant.

Disclosed is a pressure-sensitive adhesive characterized by being obtained by crosslinking a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition comprising an acrylic resin (A) and an ionic compound (B) that has a bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide anion and is solid at ordinary temperature. The pressure-sensitive adhesive is especially suitable for use in optical members, has an excellent balance between pressure-sensitive adhesive properties and antistatic performance, and has excellent adhesion in optical laminates, in particular, adhesion between a polarizer and a glass substrate, even under high-temperature high-humidity conditions. With the adhesive, a liquid-crystal display panel having excellent durability can be obtained in which neither bubble generation nor peeling occurs between the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and the glass substrate and the polarizing film can be prevented from shrinking and thereby causing light leakage.

A polystyrene-based resin composition containing a styrene-based resin with mainly syndiotactic configuration, a polyamide, and a rubber polymer as main components. Styrene-based resins of mainly syndiotactic configuration include polystyrene, poly(alkylstyrene), poly(halogenated styrene), poly(alkoxystyrene), styrene copolymers comprised of polymerized units of at least of styrene, alkylstyrene, halogenated styrene and alkoxystyrene, and mixtures thereof

This invention pertains to an ink set for inkjet printing, in particular to an ink set comprising of at least three colored inks based on specified pigment colorants.

The present invention provides a propylene polymer composition having excellent transparency, flexibility, heat resistance, scratch resistance and rubber elasticity with a good balance. The propylene polymer composition comprises 1 to 40 parts by weight of isotactic polypropylene (i) and 60 to 99 parts by weight of a propylene/ethylene/α-olefin copolymer (ii) which contains 45 to 89% by mol of a propylene component, 10 to 25% by mol of an ethylene component, and optionally, 0 to 30% by mol of constituent units (a) derived from an α-olefin of 4 to 20 carbon atoms.

An image stabilization apparatus, having a vibration correction unit that corrects image blur due to vibrations, detects an angular velocity of vibrations with a first vibration detection unit, calculates a rotational shake correction amount based on an output from the first vibration detection unit, detects vibrations with a second vibration detection unit, calculates a correction value from the outputs of the first and second vibration detection units, calculates a translational shake correction amount based on the correction value and the output of the first vibration detection unit, and drives the vibration correction unit based on at least one of the rotational or translational shake correction amounts. The image stabilization apparatus changes the translational shake correction amount to a smaller value when a main object accounts for a smaller proportion of an entire screen.

The invention provides a body protector which can be simply and easily installed and detached by hands of an athlete himself or herself, and can be finely adjusted properly by the hands of the athlete himself or herself after installation. Fastening bands are made detachable via a surface fastener provided during an overlapping under a relation that the fastening bands are structured as a pair of right and left parts respectively extending from both right and left side portions of a protector main body so as to be overlapped with each other, suspending bands are structured such as to extend from two right and left symmetrical positions in an upper portion of the protector main body, and a leading end side of the suspending band is freely attached to and detached from the fastening bands via the surface fastener.

A valve timing control device is provided with an electric motor (4) generating a magnetic retaining torque (Th) and a motor torque (Tm) in a motor shaft (102) based on a power supply. A power supply control system (6) controls the motor torque (Tm) by controlling the power supply supplied to the electric motor (4). A phase control mechanism (8) transmits a cam torque (Tca) that can alternate between a positive and a negative direction in response to rotation of a cam shaft, to the motor shaft (102) and controls a relative phase between the crank shaft and the cam shaft in accordance with a torque balance in the motor shaft (102). The power supply control system (6) eliminates the motor torque (Tm) that is balanced with the magnetic retaining torque (Th) and the cam torque (Tca) after a stop of the internal combustion engine (S105).

Substantive silicone emulsions are disclosed containing a combination of polydimethylsiloxane and pyrrolidone carboxylic acid dimethylsiloxane copolymer. The emulsions are added to personal care compositions for the hair and skin to provide, smoothness, gloss and a conditioning feel to the user.

Method for producing contact adhesive masses containing acrylic, by coupling at least one component to at least one other reactive constituent contained in at least one other component, the at least one reactive constituent having at least two functional groups and the at least one constituent in the at least one other component containing at least two functional groups.

An organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode and an organic functional layer between the anode and the cathode, in which at least one of hole injection layer, hole transport layer and electron transport layer includes a host material and an inorganic inactive material doped in the host material, and the inorganic inactive material is a halide, oxide or carbonate of metal.

The invention discloses a two-stage equalizing charging system and an application thereof. A first-stage equalizing module adopts a multi-winding transformer magnetic model, and a second-stage equalizing module adopts an improved multi-primary-winding direct current (DC)-DC equalizing model. The application of the second-stage equalizing charging system on a hybrid electric vehicle storage battery pack is characterized in that the hybrid electric vehicle storage battery pack is subjected to multi-stage grouping, and then the battery pack is controlled step by step. The two-stage equalizing charging system is high in equalizing speed, good in voltage consistency and applicable to the occasions where a vehicle-mounted battery of a hybrid vehicle is large, has the advantages of being good in equalizing effect, high in charging efficiency, good in system expandability and the like, and has good application prospects in the fields of energy saving and new energy automobiles.

A control device is used with a delta panel of a display for processing and transmitting color data to be displayed on the delta panel according to a pixel clock received from the image processing circuit. A clock duplicating circuit of the control device processes said pixel clock into three clocks with respective frequency smaller than the frequency of the pixel clock. A clock adjusting device of the control device is coupled to the clock-duplicating circuit for processing the resulting three color clocks into a first color clock, a second color clock having a first phase difference from said first color clock, and a third color clock having a second phase difference from said second color clock, wherein the first color clock, the second color clock and the third color clock are output to the delta panel for sampling a first color data, a second color data and a third color data to the delta panel, respectively.

Methods and systems are provided for dynamically allocating engine torque and motor torque in a hybrid vehicle to meet operator torque demand. The allocation is adjusted by constraining the maximum engine torque allowable under selected conditions to provide a better trade-off between performance and fuel economy. A maximum engine torque that provides best fuel economy is learned during engine operation at different engine speed-load conditions based on a deviation in spark retard torque ratio from a threshold ratio as spark timing is moved to MBT.

An image processing apparatus for controlling a display apparatus including a luminance modulation element and a color modulation element that are configured using different modulation elements, includes: a control value determination unit that determines, based on an input target color value, using a plurality of color conversion matrixes that describe a relationship between the target color value and a control value for the color modulation element for each control value for the luminance modulation element, the control value for the color modulation element; and a correction unit that non-linearly corrects the control value for the color modulation element according to a characteristic of the color modulation element.

A stacked resonator and a filter are provided which are capable of achieving miniaturization and minimum loss, and also capable of transmitting a balanced signal with superior balance characteristics. There are provided a pair of quarter-wave resonators which are interdigital-coupled to each other. One quarter-wave resonator is constructed of a plurality of conductor lines which are stacked and arranged so as to establish a comb-line coupling. By the stacked arrangement so as to establish a comb-line coupling of the plurality of conductor lines, the conductor thickness of this quarter-wave resonator can be increased virtually thereby reducing the conductor loss. Similarly, the other quarter-wave resonator is constructed of a plurality of conductor lines stacked and arranged so as to establish a comb-line coupling, and hence the conductor thickness of this quarter-wave resonator can be increased virtually thereby reducing the conductor loss.

A surface acoustic wave filter element has

• • a piezoelectric substrate; and
  • a plurality of inter-digital transducer (IDT) electrodes formed on the piezoelectric substrate,
  • wherein at least one of the plurality of IDT electrodes is connected to a balanced type terminal and other IDT electrodes are connected to balanced type terminals or unbalanced type terminals, and
  • first wiring electrode means which is connected or to be connected to the at least one IDT electrode and second wiring electrode means which is connected or to be connected to the other IDT electrodes are disposed on planes different from each other.

The present invention relates to an ultraviolet and infrared absorptive greenish glass (the first glass) containing in weight % expression at least coloring components of 0.3-0.5% of total Fe₂O₃, 0.8-2.0% CeO₂, 0.8-2.0% TiO₂, and 0.10-0.25% of FeO. This first glass may be an ultraviolet and infrared absorptive greenish glass (the second glass) in which CeO₂ amounts to 0.8-1.5% and TiO₂ amounts to 0.8-1.5%, and which contains at least 0.1-0.7% SnO as a coloring component. Each glass is characterized in each glass at 5 mm thickness is 9% or less in ultraviolet transmittance (T_uv) according to ISO/DIS9050, 1% or less in 350 nm wavelength transmittance (T₃₅₀), 70% or greater in 550 nm wavelength transmittance (T₅₅₀), and 25% or less in 1100 nm wavelength transmittance (T₁₁₀₀).

The invention discloses a fully-automatic overturning mold-release lifting appliance for a production line of aerated concrete. The lifting appliance comprises a rack, a traveling trolley movably arranged on the rack, an overturning lifting appliance connected with the traveling trolley, as well as a lifting appliance positioning device arranged on the overturning lifting appliance or the traveling trolley. The lifting appliance positioning device comprises a positioning block, a connecting rod positioning arm, and a positioning oil/air cylinder which is connected with and drives the connecting rod positioning arm; the positioning oil/air cylinder is connected with a driving device fixing seat; the connecting rod positioning arm is hinged with a positioning arm fixing seat; and when a piston rod of the positioning oil/air cylinder is retracted, the positioning block can be tightly clamped by the connecting rod positioning arm. Automatic accurate positioning of the lifting appliance and automatic hooking of a mold can be realized; with good balance, the lifting appliance is safe and reliable due to effective reduction of potential safety hazards; by use of the lifting appliance, the labor power can be saved, the production efficiency can be improved greatly, the production cost can be reduced, and therefore a good economic benefit is created for enterprises; and meanwhile the lifting appliance is simple in structure and convenient to operate.

A diluent-free curable epoxy resin composition for preparing a composite comprising: (A) at least one epoxy resin composition comprising a blend of: (A1) at least one epoxy resin, and (A2) at least one divinylarene dioxide; and (B) at least one hardener composition; and (C) at least one reinforcement materials; wherein the viscosity of the curable composition is the range of from about 0.15 Pa-s to about 1.5 Pa-s; and wherein the curable composition is adapted for providing a cured composite product made from the curable composition such that the composition being cured provides a cured composite product having an increased Tg of greater than about 5° C. as compared to a curable composition having a reactive diluent.

The present invention relates to a turbofan jet engine nacelle intended to be attached to a structure of an aircraft by an engine strut and comprising a forward air inlet section, a mid-section intended to surround a jet engine fan, and an aft section having an internal structure intended to serve as a casing for an aft portion of the jet engine and, together with an external structure (5), defining a flow duct (7) for a secondary stream, the internal structure having substantially radial extensions (61) passing through the duct and via which it is connected to an inner panel (51) of the external structure by means of at least one corresponding stiffener (110) having a right-angled general shape, characterized in that the stiffener is also fastened in an external panel (52) of the external structure.

A counter tapered thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising: (a) a counter tapered diblock A-[A/B] copolymer with a peak molecular weight from 20,000 to 250,000, which includes a monovinyl aromatic homopolymer block A with a peak molecular weight of at least 8,000 and a counter tapered copolymer block [A/B] with a vinyl content of at least 15 weight percent based on the amount of conjugated diene units in the diblock copolymer; and (b) a block copolymer selected from the group consisting of linear triblock copolymers having a peak molecular weight that is at least about 1.5 times the peak molecular weight of the counter tapered diblock A-[A/B] copolymer described In (a), multiarm coupled block copolymers having a peak molecular weight that is at least about 2.5 times the peak molecular weight of the counter tapered diblock A-[A/B] copolymer described in (a), and mixtures thereof; and (c) wherein the ratio of (a) to (b) in the counter tapered thermoplastic elastomer composition is from about 1:5 to about 5:1. The counter tapered thermoplastic elastomer compositions provide in the applications: i) easy processing such as short dispersion time, low mixing temperature, low viscosity, excellent storage stability; and ii) better reinforcement such as high elastic response, wide range of performance grade, high adherence, higher filler loading capacity, and better compromise between high and low temperature properties; which make them suitable for a broad range of applications such as road paving, roofing, shingles, waterproofing membranes, adhesive tapes and labels, contact and sprayable adhesives, and sealants.

The present invention relates to a dicing die-bonding film including: a dicing film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on a base material; and a die-bonding film provided on the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the dicing film is a heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed of a heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive containing an acrylic polymer A and a foaming agent. The acrylic polymer A is an acrylic polymer composed of a monomer composition containing 50% by weight or more of an acrylic acid ester represented by CH₂═CHCOOR (wherein R is an alkyl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms) and 1% by weight to 30% by weight of a hydroxyl group-containing monomer and containing no carboxyl group-containing monomer. The heat-expandable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has a surface free energy of 30 mJ/m² or less. The die-bonding film is constituted by a resin composition containing an epoxy resin.