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A steel cord having a strand construction formed by twisting a plurality of sheath strands each formed by twisting plural filaments around a core strand formed by twisting plural filaments is provided. At least one of the core strand and the sheath strands has a construction of twisting one or more sheath layers each made of plural filaments around a core made of one or plural filaments, and a diameter of a filament constituting an outermost sheath layer is made larger than that of a filament constituting at least one layer located inside thereof, whereby precedent breakage in a part of the filaments is avoided to improve the durability of the steel cord.

A color conversion luminescent sheet and a method of preparing the same, the color conversion luminescent sheet including: an optical sheet having a plurality of protrusions and depressions on its lower surface; a conductive layer disposed on the upper surface of the optical sheet; a color conversion luminescent layer deposited on the upper surface of the conductive layer and comprising a mixture of nanofibers and nanobeads having a binder resin and a color conversion luminescent material; and a protective layer on the upper surface of the color conversion luminescent layer, the protective layer having a stacked structure including an organic polymer protective layer and an inorganic thin protective layer.

A vehicle has an engine, an accelerator for controlling the rotary speed of the engine, an axle and a multi-speed transmission for transmitting power from the engine to the axle. The multi-speed transmission includes an odd-numbered speed drive train for an odd-numbered speed level, a first clutch for the odd-numbered speed drive train, an even-numbered speed drive train for an even-numbered speed level, and a second clutch for the even-numbered speed drive train. In correspondence to operation of the accelerator and an actual speed of the axle, either the odd-numbered speed drive train or the even-numbered speed drive train is selected so as to transmit power from the engine to the axle. A shift-up or shift-down timing between the odd-numbered speed level and the even-numbered speed level relative to variation of the actual speed of the axle is changed according to detection of a tilt angle of the vehicle or a weight of the vehicle.

A piezoelectric element comprises a piezoelectric film disposed on a substrate and a pair of electrodes disposed in contact with the piezoelectric film and utilizing a bending mode. The piezoelectric film includes domains constituted of a tetragonal crystal and including an a-domain which is formed by a crystal having a (100) plane parallel to the film surface of the piezoelectric film, the a-domains include an A-domain having a normal axis of (001) plane substantially parallel to a principal bending direction of the piezoelectric film and a B-domain having a normal axis of (001) plane substantially perpendicular to the principal bending direction of the piezoelectric film, and the A-domains have a volume proportion larger than 50 vol % with respect to the sum of the volume of the A-domains and the volume of the B-domains.

A three-piece solid golf ball having a solid core, an intermediate layer enclosing the solid core, and a cover layer enclosing the intermediate layer and having a large number of dimples formed in its surface, characterized in that the core deforms as much as 3.4 to 4.1 mm under a load which changes from 10 kg to 130 kg, the intermediate layer has a surface hardness of 64 to 69 in terms of Shore D hardness, the cover layer is formed mainly from thermoplastic polyurethane such that it has a lower hardness than the intermediate layer, with the difference in hardness between the cover layer and the intermediate layer being 10 to 16 in terms of Shore D hardness, the intermediate layer and the cover layer have a total thickness of 2.2 to 3.0 mm, the cover layer has a thickness of 0.8 to 1.3 mm, and the dimples have at least four different diameters and/or depths, with the average depth being 0.14 to 0.17 mm, and amount to 250 to 390 in all. The three-piece solid golf ball exhibits adequate spin performance by iron shot and approach shot. It also exhibits good flying performance and durability.

The present invention provides a toner that exhibits an excellent colorant dispersibility and hence maintains the formation of a high-quality image, that is capable of low-temperature fixing, and that has a satisfactory heat-resistant storability and a satisfactory durability, in which the toner comprising a toner particle that contains a colorant and a binder resin containing a styrene-acrylic resin and a crystalline resin, wherein a compatibility parameter (V) between the styrene-acrylic resin and the crystalline resin satisfies 0.40≦V≦1.10.

A vehicle has an engine, an accelerator for controlling the rotary speed of the engine, an axle and a multi-speed transmission for transmitting power from the engine to the axle. The multi-speed transmission includes an odd-numbered speed drive train for an odd-numbered speed level, a first clutch for the odd-numbered speed drive train, an even-numbered speed drive train for an even-numbered speed level, and a second clutch for the even-numbered speed drive train. In correspondence to operation of the accelerator and an actual speed of the axle, either the odd-numbered speed drive train or the even-numbered speed drive train is selected so as to transmit power from the engine to the axle. A shift-up or shift-down timing between the odd-numbered speed level and the even-numbered speed level relative to variation of the actual speed of the axle is changed according to detection of a tilt angle of the vehicle or a weight of the vehicle.

In a molded surface fastener (10) having engaging elements (2) of minute dimension of thermoplastic resin molded together with a base member (1) by continuous molding, each engaging element (2) comprises first and second engaging portions (22a, 22b) each having a different configuration extending in parallel to a surface of the base member from a top end of a pillar portion (21) rising from the base member (1) such that they intersect at right angle. The second engaging head (22b) has an ordinary hook shape structure while the first engaging head (22a) has a wing-like thin plate structure as seen in a plan view. The engaging elements having such a structure in which each engaging element has appropriate engagement force, shearing force and separation force so as to keep an excellent tactile feeling of a surface of the surface fastener, prevents itself from falling down against a pressing force, secures a high engagement ratio with mating pile pieces and satisfies a durability.

An organic compound is represented by following Formula (I):

A display device may include the following elements: a plurality of gate lines extending in a first direction; a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction; a gate driver configured for applying gate signals to the gate lines; a data driver configured for applying data voltages to the data lines; a plurality of pixels electrically connected to the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines; and a control wire set that traverses overlaps an area of a first pixel of the plurality of pixels, electrically interconnects the gate driver and the data driver, and is configured to transmit a control signal from the data driver to the gate driver.

A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical applications of the present invention is made from a pressure-sensitive adhesive for optical applications including a base polymer (A), and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical applications includes iodine and/or iodide ions (B). The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical applications has an antistatic function and can satisfy a durability.

It is an object to provide a novel laminating adhesive to thereby allow provision of a laminating adhesive composition for a laminate that provides good adhesion between a metal layer and a plastic layer, has satisfactory moisture barrier properties, heat resistance, insulation properties, durability, etc., also exhibits electrolyte resistance even after low-temperature curing, and does not undergo delamination over time. A laminate that uses the laminating adhesive composition and a secondary battery are also provided. The object is achieved by a laminating adhesive containing a non-chlorine-based polyolefin resin (A), an epoxy compound (B), and an organic solvent (C) including a cyclic alkane compound as an essential ingredient and further including an ester-based solvent or an alcohol-based solvent. In the organic solvent (C), the ratio, in parts by mass, of the cyclic alkane compound to the solvent other than the cyclic alkane compound is within the range of 1/1 to 20/1.

An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire capable of reducing the narrowing of the openings of sipes and increasing ground-contact performance by ensuring the edge effect and the water removal effect thereby increasing on-ice braking performance while providing a satisfactory durability to a sipe-forming blade mounted on the tire manufacturing die. To achieve the above object, each of the sipes formed in a land portion of a tread surface which a pneumatic tire comprises has: a first sipe portion in which a first wide portion having a bottom portion thereof is formed, a second sipe portion in which a second wide portion having a bottom portion thereof and extending in a depth direction from a depth position closer to the tread surface side than the bottom portion of the first wide portion is formed at the side opposite to the first wide portion as viewed in a sipe width direction, the second sipe portion being positioned on the side of the bottom portion of the first sipe portion, and a third sipe portion in which a third wide portion having a bottom portion thereof and extending in a depth direction from a depth position closer to the tread surface side than the bottom portion of the second wide portion is formed at the same side as the first wide portion as viewed in a sipe width direction, the third sipe portion being positioned on the side of the bottom portion of the second sipe portion.

A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer of the invention for transparent conductive film has a thickness of 10 μm to 100 μm, and is made from a water-dispersible acryl-based pressure-sensitive adhesive that is an aqueous dispersion containing a water-dispersible (meth)acryl-based polymer and a water-soluble basic component, wherein the water-dispersible (meth)acryl-based polymer comprises 100 parts by weight of an alkyl(meth)acrylate with an alkyl group of 4 to 14 carbon atoms, as a monomer unit, and 1 to 8 parts by weight of a carboxyl group-containing monomer as a copolymerized monomer unit, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains 200 ng to 500,000 ng of the water-soluble basic component per 1 cm² as determined by measurement of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer can have satisfactory durability in a high-temperature or high-temperature, high-humidity environment and can suppress corrosion in a high-temperature, high-humidity environment.

A method of determining and applying a protective ink amount to be printed in addition to a plurality of colored ink amounts to make colored pixels in an image including determining a first protective ink amount responsive to the colored ink amounts, determining multitoned colored ink amounts using a multitone processor responsive to the colored ink amounts, and determining a second protective ink amount responsive to the multitoned colored ink amounts. The method also includes determining the protective ink amount responsive to the first protective ink amount and the second protective ink amount to provide adequate durability for the image, and applying using an inkjet printer the colored ink amounts and the protective ink amount to make the colored image pixels.

The present invention relates to an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, and more precisely, an acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition which is prepared by copoly-merization of a vinyl and/or acrylic monomer having a cross-linkable functional group and comprises 100 weight part of a high molecular weight (meth)acrylic copolymer which is prepared by copolymerization of a vinyl and/or acrylic monomer harboring a cross-linkable functional group and whose weight average molecular weight is 40˜100 times as high as the entanglement molecular weight, 5˜50 weight part of a low molecular weight (meth)acrylic copolymer which does not contain a cross-linkable functional group and whose weight average molecular weight is 2˜15 times as high as entanglement molecular weight, and 0.01˜10 weight part of a multifunctional cross-linking agent. The acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive composition of the present invention has reliable adhesion durability under high temperature and high humidity and at the same time reduces the light leakage due to the stress relaxation and enhances the cutting-efficiency of a polarizing plate.