Shiseido Company, Limited

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Dow Corning Toray Company, Ltd.

Kei Watanabe

Takeshi Ohno

Tadashi Okawa

Yoshikazu Kondo

Kazuyoshi Iida

Hidefumi Araki

Keiichiro Mizuno

Yasunari Nakama

Teruhiko Hineno

Masayasu Matsumoto

Sadao Nomoto

Noriaki Murayama

Hiroshi Kikuchi

Tomohiro Iimura

Takayuki Omura

Toshio Yanaki

Akira Matsuo

Kenzo Ito

Hiroyuki Kakoki

Yasunobu Goto

Yuko Nagare

Fumiaki Matsuzaki

Tomohiko Kimura

Masaki Kitajima

Shun Takahashi

Shinji Yaginuma

Ayako Ibe

Takashi Teshigawara

Minako Sato

Tomonori Katayama

Tomohiro Ilmura

Takashi Meno

Kazutami Sakamoto

Hiroki Inoue

Natsuko Fujii

Kazuyoshi Nakamura

Hirokazu Ishino

Provided is a detergent composition that contains (A) 2-17.5 mass % of an anionic surfactant, (B) 1-17.5 mass % of an amphoteric surfactant, (C) 2.5-17 mass % of a hydrophilic non-ionic surfactant and (D) 0.2-5 mass % of an oily component. However, the detergent composition does not contain substantial amounts of fatty acid monoglycerol esters and fatty acid monoalkyl monoglyceryl ethers having alkyl groups or acyl groups having 9 or more carbon atoms. The detergent composition does not contain substantial amounts of fatty acid diglycerol esters or fatty acid monoalkyl diglyceryl ethers which have alkyl groups or acyl groups having 8 or more carbon atoms.

Cleansing composition

A medium supply apparatus includes a box member and a lid. A medium is stored inside the box member. The box member is inserted into and extracted from a body of an image forming apparatus, and has a length in an extraction/insertion direction that is longer than a length of the body in the extraction/insertion direction. The lid is provided on a back side of the body in the extraction/insertion direction of the box member to cover at least an upper part of a portion of the box member that projects from the body. The lid includes a first member, a second member, and a first lug. The first member is movable in the extraction/insertion direction with respect to the body. The second member is connected to the first member so as to be relatively movable in the extraction/insertion direction with respect to the first member. The second member is moved by being pushed by the box member which is inserted into the body. The first lug is provided on the second member. The first lug is engaged with the box member by a force that presses the box member against the second member, and disengaged from the box member by a force that extracts the box member from the second member.

Medium supply apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet feeding device includes: a feeding unit that is provided to be movable in a forward-backward direction to move forward or backward relative to a sheet placing unit on which a sheet is placed, and feeds the sheet; a moving unit that moves the feeding unit in the forward-backward direction; a contact unit that is provided to be movable, with which the sheet placed on the sheet placing unit is brought into contact; a limitation unit that limits movement of the contact unit; and a releasing unit that, when the moving unit moves the feeding unit in a direction away from the sheet placing unit, with the movement of the feeding unit, releases limitation on the movement of the contact unit by the limitation unit.

Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus

A starting control device for an internal combustion engine is provided with a hard cranking device and a soft cranking device that are respectively capable of and incapable of cranking the internal combustion engine to a target idle rotation speed. The starting control device includes: a starting mode determination unit determining whether to carry out starting in a non-combustion pressure mode whereby starting is carried out with the hard cranking device, or in a combustion pressure combination mode whereby starting is carried out through cranking with the soft cranking device while using a combustion pressure generated by supplying fuel to the internal combustion engine in combination; and an intake air amount control unit making an amount of intake air during cranking differ between a case where starting is carried out in the non-combustion pressure mode and a case where starting is carried out in the combustion pressure combination mode.

Starting control device for internal combustion engines and starting control method

To provide a transparent to translucent cosmetic composition which is highly stable, and can impart excellent actual feelings of effectiveness in use, such as a feeling of skin penetration, a feeling of non-stickiness, and a skin-softening effect after application thereof to the skin. A transparent to translucent cosmetic composition comprising: (a) a hydrogenated phospholipid, (b) one or more selected from among branched higher fatty acids and higher alcohols, and (c) a polyalcohol that acts as a good solvent and/or a poor solvent for component (a). Preferably, component (b) is isostearic acid and/or isostearyl alcohol. Preferably, the ratio of component (a)/component (b) is from 1/0.01 to 1/0.4 (by mass).

Cosmetic composition

The present invention provides a gel composition having improved texture in use. A gel composition consisting of an organosiloxane derivative represented by the following formula (1) or (3), a monohydric aliphatic alcohol having 10 to 30 carbon atoms, and water. 

Gel composition and cosmetic

A hybrid vehicle control device provided with an engine idle unit for maintaining an engine rotation speed at an idle rotation speed by an engine, a motor idle unit for maintaining the engine rotation speed at the idle rotation speed by a motor generator, a switching unit for switching an idle control between execution of engine idle control and execution of motor idle control in accordance with an operation state of the hybrid vehicle, and an idle control changing unit for changing from the idle control to the engine idle control by adding a load torque portion of the motor generator having been inputted into the engine for maintaining the engine rotation speed at the idle rotation speed during the motor idle control to an output torque of the engine when the idle control is switched from the motor idle control to the engine idle control during the idle operation.

Hybrid vehicle control device and hybrid vehicle control method

An idling revolution speed control which maintains an engine speed at a predetermined target idling revolution speed during the idling drive includes an engine idling mode which performs the idling revolution speed control through an engine and a motor idling mode which performs the idling revolution speed control through a motor. The two modes are switched in accordance with a battery charged state. During the idling drive in an engine cold state, an ignition timing of the engine in the motor idling mode is retarded and the retardation quantities R, Rare expanded to be larger than the retardation quantities R, Rin the engine idling mode. Thus, a rise in an exhaust temperature of the engine is promoted.

Idling control device for vehicle

The present invention provides a water-in-oil emulsion cosmetic that is excellent in the resilient and supple (in other words, firm and tensional) feels and also excellent in the moisturizing effect and feeling in use. The water-in-oil emulsion cosmetic of the present invention is characterized by comprising the following (A) to (D):

Water-in-oil emulsified cosmetic

The present invention provides a cleanser which is excellent in both of the foaming property and the cleansing capability. The cleanser comprises an organosiloxane derivative salt represented by the following formula (1) or (3) and one or more anionic surfactants selected from a group consisting of carboxylate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms, sulfate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms, sulfonate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms, and phosphate salt with an alkyl group having 10 to 20 carbon atoms. 

Cleanser

The present invention provides new silica composite capsules that can be easily prepared, a composition containing the silica composite capsules, and a transparent gel-form composition excellent in appearance transparency and texture in use, and in particular, a transparent gel-form composition with improved cleansing properties when used as a cleanser. Micelle/silica composite capsules can easily be obtained, in an aqueous system, by mixing a material capable of forming micelles in water and a water-soluble silane derivative having a specific structure in aqueous solution. In addition, emulsion/silica composite capsules wherein the periphery of emulsion particles in the inner phase is coated with silica, can easily be obtained by mixing a surfactant, water, an oil, and a water-soluble silane derivative having a specific structure. Moreover, a transparent gel-form composition showing excellent appearance transparency, the texture in use and cleansing properties, can be obtained by blending a water-soluble silane derivative having a specific structure into the formulation that contains a surfactant, an oil and water, and capable of taking a surfactant association structure with aqueous continuous phase or both of aqueous continuous phase and oil continuous phase in the formulation.

Silica composite capsules obtained by blending water-soluble silane derivative, composition containing the same, and transparent gel-form composition

The objective of this invention is to provide an oil-based cleansing composition which retains high performance capability for cleansing, is free from the occurrence of cloudiness in the appearance and does not cause the reduction of the performance capability for massaging, even when water is interfused therein, and further is reduced in the irritation to an eye and is of good safety. An oil-based cleansing composition of this invention is characterized in that comprising (A) a nonionic surfactant having a HLB of 6 to 14, and (B) an oil component, and said oil-based cleansing composition satisfies the following conditions (1) and (2):

Oil-cleansing composition

In order to provide a liquid crystal composition and a cosmetic preparation, which is favorable in adaptation to skin and gives smooth feeling in case of using as a skin care product, and which is favorable in adaptation to makeup and has high makeup removing effect in case of using as a make-up remover, and which is favorable in adaptation to hair and has favorable feeling of use to provide glossiness to hair in case of using as a hair care product, a cosmetic preparation of the present invention comprises (A) 10 to 60 wt % of a nonionic surfactant, (B) 1 to 50 wt % in all of one or more of a water-soluble substance having a hydroxyl group, (C) 1 to 70 wt % of a silicone oil, and (D) 10 to 60 wt % of water and has a liquid crystal phase and/or an isotropic surfactant continuous phase.

Liquid crystal composition and cosmetic preparation

Emulsion composition

A device for controlling a propagation direction of noise, which is preferably associated with a sound insulating wall to significantly improve its sound reducing effect of alleviating noise emitted from a noise source such as a railroad, highway and the like on which an electric car and automobiles run. The device comprises a hollow structural body composed of a plurality of elongated vertical hollow passages arranged at right angles to a substrate and spaced apart from each other by means of partition walls. The upper noise inlet side surface of the hollow passages face a propagation direction of noise emitted from the noise source and serve to refract and lag in phase the noise passed therethrough, thereby producing a sound reducing region located intermediate between a direct sound propagation and the refracted sound propagation. In one embodiment, a pair of hollow structural bodies are arranged in opposition to each other to form an arch type device. In another embodiment, the hollow structural body may be provided at its noise inlet or outlet side surface with an extension of the hollow passages.

Device for controlling a propagation direction of noise

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Yokohama, Japan

Kei Watanabe