3m Innovative Properties Company

Denka Company Limited

Toda Kogyo Corporation

Akira Yoda

Chikafumi Yokoyama

Toru Aoki

Takaki Sugimoto

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Takashi Kawasaki

Tetsuya Ito

Hiroshi Yokota

Yorinobu Takamatsu

Yoko Nakamura

Akihisa Kajiyama

Toshihiro Suwa

Kazutoshi Matsumoto

Tatsuya Nagai

Teruaki Santoki

Ryuta Masaki

Daisuke Morita

Takahiko Sugihara

Masashi Nakayama

Tsuyoshi Wakiyama

Takayuki Tachihara

Taro Inada

Chikaumi Yokoyma

A slurry including at least a carbon black and a dispersion medium, wherein a concentration of the carbon black in the slurry is 5% by mass or more and 25% by mass or less, and wherein in a volume-based frequency distribution of particle size of the carbon black measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method, provided that a volume concentration of carbon black with a particle size of 0.6 &#x3bc;m or more is x (%), a volume concentration of carbon black with a particle size of 0.3 &#x3bc;m or more and less than 0.6 &#x3bc;m is y (%), and a volume concentration of carbon black having a particle size of less than 0.3 &#x3bc;m is 100&#x2212;(x+y) (%), the slurry satisfies 10&#x2264;x&#x2264;70, 30&#x2264;y&#x2264;90, and 0&#x2264;100&#x2212;(x+y)&#x2264;30.

Slurry including carbon black, electrode paste, method for producing electrode, and method for producing secondary battery

A method for manufacturing a decorative object, which enables manufacturing of a decorative object, on which a random concavo-convex structure is formed, such as non-glossy finish, with a uniform product appearance, while maintaining operating efficiency is described. The method for manufacturing a decorative object includes the steps of coating a concavo-convex surface having a concavo-convex structure with a coating solution including a resin component, transferring the concavo-convex structure to a transfer surface to form a resin layer having the transfer surface, and to obtain a transfer member comprising the resin layer, and decorating a surface for decoration by pressing the transfer surface of the transfer member against the surface for decoration including a thermoplastic resin while heating.

Method of manufacturing decorative object, method of repairing decorative object, transfer member, and decorating kit

An object of the present invention is to provide a positive electrode mixture capable of conducting stable charging and discharging with a less amount of gasses generated which has an operating voltage or an initial crystal phase transition voltage of not less than 4.5 V on the basis of lithium. The present invention relates to a positive electrode mixture comprising carbon black having a bulk density of not more than 0.1 g/cm, a crystallite size of 10 to 40 &#x212b;, an iodine adsorption of 1 to 150 mg/g, a volatile content of not more than 0.1% and a metal impurity content of not more than 20 ppm, and a positive electrode active substance having an operating voltage or an initial crystal phase transition voltage of not less than 4.5 V on the basis of lithium.

Positive electrode mixture and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery

An abrasive pad used to abrade the surfaces of glass, ceramic, and metal materials, the abrasive pad being provided with a substrate layer, and an abrasive layer provided on a first surface side of the substrate layer and including an abrasive material, and the abrasive layer having a plurality of base portions arranged mutually separated on the substrate layer, columnar or frustum shaped tip portions arranged mutually separated on the base portions, and a group of grooves containing a plurality of groove portions provided between base portions such that the substrate layer is exposed, with each of the grooves mutually intersecting.

Abrasive pad and method for abrading glass, ceramic, and metal materials

To provide a nonwoven fabric polishing roll that can reduce the occurrence of polishing defects and carry out uniform polishing. A nonwoven fabric polishing roll having a through hole in to which a rotation shaft of a polishing machine is inserted, and the internal surface of the through hole engages with the rotation shaft so that the torque of the rotation shaft is transmitted, the nonwoven fabric polishing roll comprising: a plurality of circular nonwoven fabrics having an aperture in the center thereof that forms the through hole; and a plurality of circular plates having an aperture in the center thereof that forms the through hole, and having an outer diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter of the circular nonwoven fabric, wherein the plurality of circular nonwoven fabric and the plurality of the circular plates are stacked so that one or two or more of the circular nonwoven fabrics are sandwiched on their aperture side by the circular plates, and bonded together with adhesive while compressed in the stacking direction, and the compression deformation ratio of the circular plates with respect to pressure forces from a direction normal to the stacking direction is smaller than that of the circular nonwoven fabric.

Nonwoven fabric polishing roll and method of manufacturing same

A defoaming method for removing air bubbles from a curable resin material and a contact portion of the resin material with an irregular structure of a flat metallic mold. The mold includes a fine structural region having a fine irregular structure and a flat region in the periphery of the fine structural region. The curable resin material is applied to the irregular structure of the fine structural region, filling the irregular structure with the resin material.

Defoaming method, defoaming device and manufacturing method of transfer mold

The present invention relates to methods of making a flexible mold from a polymerizable resin composition, the flexible mold, the polymerizable resin composition, as well as methods of using the flexible mold.

Flexible mold comprising cured polymerizable resin composition

To provide a flexible mold () useful for manufacturing a PDP rib having a lattice pattern and other microstructures, and capable of highly precisely manufacturing the microstructures without involving defects such as occurrence of bubbles and pattern deformation. A flexible mold () comprises a base layer () made of a first curable material having a viscosity of 3,000 to 100,000 cps at 10 to 80&#xb0; C. and a coating layer () coating a surface of the base layer () and made of a second curable material having a viscosity of 200 cps or below at 10 to 80&#xb0; C.

Flexible mold and method of manufacturing microstructure using the same

A method of producing a substrate () for a plasma display panel, which comprises the steps of: contacting a rib precursor composition () containing a first photo-setting initiator having a first absorption edge and a first photo-setting component, closely with a base (); filling a mold (30), obtained by photo-setting of a second photo-setting component in a presence of a second photo-setting initiator having a second absorption edge whose wavelength is shorter than that corresponding to the first absorption edge of the first photo-setting initiator, with the rib precursor composition (); irradiating the rib precursor composition () with light having a wavelength longer than that corresponding to the second absorption edge to set the rib precursor composition (), thereby forming a rib () on the base (); and removing the mold () from the resulting base () on which the rib () is formed.

Barrier rib formation on substrate for plasma display panels and mold therefor

A method of producing barrier ribs for a plasma display panel substrate, which comprises the steps of: (a) partially filling a groove portion of a mold with a first photosensitive glass-ceramic paste selected from a photosensitive black glass-ceramic paste and a photosensitive white glass-ceramic paste, and curing the paste by irradiating with radiation; (b) supplying a second photosensitive glass-ceramic paste, which is different from the first photosensitive glass-ceramic paste, selected from the photosensitive black glass-ceramic paste and the photosensitive white glass-ceramic paste, on a glass base, and laminating the mold with the glass base through the second paste to form a laminate; (c) irradiating the laminate with radiation to form a rib precursor molded article composed of two white and black layers; (d) removing the mold from the glass base and the rib precursor molded article to transfer the rib precursor molded article to the glass base; and (e) sintering the rib precursor molded article to form a rib formed integrally on the glass base.

Method of producing barrier ribs for plasma display panel substrates

An apparatus is provided for producing a substrate for PDP, which can easily reduce ununiformity of a dielectric layer and defects of ribs. The apparatus is so constituted that it comprises: a table for the plate, a rib precursor supplying portion for providing a precusor of the ribs on the plate, a pliable mold having at least groove portions provided in parallel with each other at a fixed distance, which is disposed on the precursor of the ribs provided on the plate, a mold pressing portion for applying a pressure to the mold, thereby to contact the mold closely with the plate via the precursor of the ribs, and a driving portion for moving the mold pressing portion along the groove portions of the mold.

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Akira Yoda