Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Shin-etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Shin-etsu Handotai Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Other

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Ube Industries, Inc.

Naoetsu Electronics Co., Ltd.

Masatoshi Takahashi

Katsumi Ryoke

Masamitsu Nagahama

Eiichi Tadokoro

Kazuko Hanai

Hiroshi Hashimoto

Katsuhiko Meguro

Hideaki Kosha

Hiroo Inaba

Nobutaka Yamaguchi

Hiroyuki Ohtsuka

Nobuhiro Furukawa

Kazuaki Taga

Masahisa Fujimoto

Akira Sato

Takenori Watabe

Shinichi Miyamoto

Keiki Yamada

Akihiro Hashimoto

Hiroaki Doushita

Satoyuki Ojima

Nobuyoshi Asada

Koji Ueno

Toshiyuki Nohma

Tsutomu Okita

Yasuo Nishikawa

Mikio Tomaru

Takashi Mori

Ichiro Furuki

Masaki Suzuki

Yutaka Kakuishi

Masato Iwanaga

Minoru Sueki

Masashi Hattori

Noriyuki Yoshinaga

Hiroaki Takano

Koji Nishio

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Toshiki Sugawara

Tsuneo Sato

Hitoshi Noguchi

Nobuo Yamazaki

Ryuji Ohshita

Takashi Yoneyama

Seiji Yoshimura

Takao Abe

Toshimitu Okutu

Noburo Hibino

Toshihiko Miura

Akira Ushimaru

Mikio Ohno

Nobumichi Nishida

Naoto Murao

Eiichi Higashikawa

Hiroshi Ogawa

Hiroshi Ito

Yasuyuki Yamada

Koji Abe

Hideo Sato

Masashi Ogawa

Kiyomi Ejiri

Yasuo Tamai

Masahiko Shimizu

Mikinari Shimada

Takahito Miyoshi

Masaki Saito

Masashi Aonuma

Shinji Irifune

Masayuki Nagamine

Toshikazu Hamamoto

Shinji Kasamatsu

Toshio Ohba

Toshiyuki Saito

Takeshi Takahara

Chiaki Mizuno

Nobuyuki Kobayashi

Akira Ueki

Masahiko Ogawa

Koji Naoe

Takahiro Yoshida

Toshiyuki Kitahara

Yutaka Oki

Keizo Nakajima

Shinya Miyazaki

Yasunari Shinohara

Masayuki Terasaka

Shigeyuki Inoue

Hideki Matsumura

Naoki Ishikawa

Hiroshi Arakatsu

Keiji Usuba

Atsushi Masuda

Keiji Mori

Takuya Sunagawa

Akira Izumi

Hyun Young Kim

Shigeru Yokono

Toshihiko Saitoh

Hisashi Takeichi

A heat exchanger includes a main pipe through which refrigerant flows, a plurality of tubes connected to the main pipe to allow refrigerant passing through the plurality of tubes to exchange heat with air, and a refrigerant distributor disposed between the main pipe and the plurality of tubes, to distribute refrigerant passing through the main pipe to the plurality of tubes. The refrigerant distributor includes an upstream structure connected to the main pipe and including a plurality of first distribution flow paths to which the refrigerant passing through the main pipe are distributed, and a downstream structure including a plurality of second distribution flow paths communicating with the plurality of first distribution flow paths, and a plurality of refrigerant outlets communicating with the plurality of second distribution flow paths so as to allow the refrigerant to be discharged to the plurality of tubes.

Heat exchanger and air conditioner including the same

An air conditioner including a distributor configured to distribute a fluid to a heat exchanger. The distributor comprises a main pipe; a partition defining a plurality of distribution paths in the main pipe; a first branched pipe inserted into the main pipe as much as first length, linked to a first distribution path of the plurality of distribution paths, connected to a first portion of the heat exchanger; and a second branched pipe inserted into the main pipe as much as second length different from the first length, linked to the first distribution path, connected to a second portion of the heat exchanger. A flow velocity of air exchanging heat at the first portion of the heat exchanger is faster than a flow velocity of air exchanging heat at the second portion of the heat exchanger. The first length is shorter than the second length.

Distributor, heat exchanger unit and air conditioner

A refrigerant charging device and a refrigerant charging system include a refrigerant charging flour path having a refrigerant charging port connected to a refrigerant flow path of an air conditioner, a valve provided at the refrigerant charging flow path, and a control device configured to control the valve. The control device includes a discharging superheat calculator configured to calculate the discharging superheat degree from a refrigerant temperature and a refrigerant pressure at a discharge side of a compressor, and a valve controller configured to control the opening and closing state of the valve based on the calculated discharging superheat degree calculated by the discharge super-heat calculator.

Refrigerant charge device and refrigerant charge system having the same

A decorative sheet includes a primary film layer; a transparent resin layer; and a surface protective layer, in this order; the surface protective layer is formed of a plurality of layers with a layer located on an outermost surface is a surface protective layer, and a layer underlying the surface protective layer is a second surface protective layer and includes one or more ionizing radiation-curable resins having an erosion rate E in a range of 0.10 &#x3bc;m/g or more and 0.45 &#x3bc;m/g or less, and one or more thermosetting resins having an erosion rate E in a range of 0.30 &#x3bc;m/g or more and 0.6 &#x3bc;m/g or less, the erosion rate E being measured by using polygonal alumina powder having an average particle size (D50) of 1.2 &#x3bc;m, and a mass ratio between the ionizing radiation-curable resin and the thermosetting resin (ionizing radiation-curable resin/thermosetting resin) is 95/5 to 40/60.

Decorative sheets

To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having high transparency and excellent surface scratch resistance from the viewpoint of the design properties and a transparent resin sheet. A decorative sheet () according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer () containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component, in which a value of a peak area ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer () is x&#x2265;0.4. Herein, S040, S130, and Sam in the following expression (1) are peak areas determined from an X-ray diffraction spectrum obtained by measuring the transparent resin layer with an X-ray diffractometer, S040 is the peak area from the Miller index (040) of polypropylene &#x3b1; crystals, S130 is the peak area from the Miller index (130) of the polypropylene &#x3b1; crystals, and Sam is the peak area of an amorphous material. 

Decorative sheet, and transparent resin sheet

The present invention provides a decorative sheet having higher designability and weatherability over a long period of time by adding an organic ultraviolet absorbent and an inorganic ultraviolet absorbent each provided as organic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles and inorganic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles, respectively, to at least one of a top coat layer and a transparent resin layer. A decorative sheet of an aspect of the present invention includes a top coat layer as an outermost layer, and a transparent resin layer as an underlayer of the top coat layer, wherein an organic ultraviolet absorbent and an inorganic ultraviolet absorbent are added to at least one of the top coat layer and the transparent resin layer, and the organic ultraviolet absorbent and the inorganic ultraviolet absorbent are each encapsulated in vesicles having a monolayer outer membrane and provided as organic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles and inorganic ultraviolet absorbent vesicles, respectively.

Decorative sheet

A decorated sheet according to the present disclosure consists of a plurality of resin layers, wherein at least one of the resin layers comprises a nano-sized additive.

Decorated sheet

To provide a decorative sheet including a transparent resin layer having excellent post-processing resistance and high transparency. A decorative sheet () according to one aspect of the present invention has a transparent resin layer () containing a crystalline polypropylene resin as the main component. A value of a peak intensity ratio x represented by the following expression (1) of the transparent resin layer () is x&#x2264;0.65. Herein, I997, I938, and I973 in the following expression (1) are peak intensity values calculated from the absorption spectrum obtained by Fourier infrared spectrometry of the transparent resin layer, and I997 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 997 cm, I938 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 938 cm, and I973 is the peak intensity value at a wavenumber of 973 cm. 

A decorative sheet including a substrate layer, and one or more layers of at least one of a transparent resin layer and a top coat layer provided on one surface of the substrate layer, the one or more layers being provided as a front surface layer, wherein at least one layer of the transparent resin layer and the top coat layer contains a radical scavenger, and the radical scavenger is contained in a form of radical scavenger vesicles, which encapsulate the radical scavenger within an outer membrane.

Decorative sheet and method of producing decorative sheet

A decorative sheet that has a transparent resin layer having good V groove bending processability (post-processability) while maintaining high scratch resistance and transparency and a method of producing the decorative sheet. A decorative sheet () according to the present embodiment is a decorative sheet including at least a transparent resin layer () containing a highly crystalline polypropylene resin as a main component. The transparent resin layer () contains a low crystalline polypropylene resin added thereto in the range of 0.1 part by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the highly crystalline polypropylene resin, the low crystalline polypropylene resin having a tensile modulus in the range of 25 MPa or more and 500 MPa or less.

Decorative sheet and method of producing the same

An object of the present invention is to provide a decorative sheet excellent in post-processability and usable for flame-retardant application. A decorative sheet () according to one aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of resin layers. At least one layer of the resin layers is formed of a uniaxially stretched resin sheet () or a biaxially stretched resin sheet () constituted of a thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition is produced by adding an inorganic pigment vesicle to a polyolefin-based resin. The inorganic pigment vesicle is produced by including an inorganic pigment in a vesicle having a monolayer outer membrane. The uniaxially stretched resin sheet () and the biaxially stretched resin sheet () have a value of a dichroic ratio R of R&#x2265;0.3. The value is calculated from absorbance peak values at a wave number of 997(&#xb1;5) cmof an infrared absorption spectrum in a direction parallel to an extrusion direction during film manufacturing and an infrared absorption spectrum in a direction perpendicular to the extrusion direction during the film manufacturing obtained by a polarized Fourier type infrared spectroscopy measurement using the following Formula (1).[Formula 1]Dichroic ratio=(Absorbance peak value in parallel direction&#x2212;Absorbance peak value in perpendicular direction)/(Absorbance peak value in parallel direction+Absorbance peak value in perpendicular direction)&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)

The present invention provides a decorative sheet comprising a transparent resin layer having good scratch resistance, good post-processing resistance, and high transparency, and a method of manufacturing the same. The decorative sheet according to one aspect of the present invention comprises at least a transparent resin layer formed by adding to a transparent olefin-based resin nucleating agent vesicles which are vesicles having a single layer outer membrane and containing a nucleating agent, and the Martens hardness of the transparent resin layer is 40 N/mmor higher.

Decorative sheet and method of manufacturing the same

The invention provides a method for evaluating the safety of a battery under an internal short-circuit condition. The battery includes: an electrode group including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an insulating layer for electrically insulating the electrodes, which are wound or laminated; an electrolyte; a housing for housing the electrode group and the electrolyte; and a current-collecting terminal for electrically connecting the electrode group and the housing. The method of the invention includes: placing a foreign object at a location inside the electrode group of the battery where the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other; and pressing the location by the pressure applied by a pressing tool to locally crush the insulating layer between the positive and negative electrodes, thereby causing an internal short-circuit. The contact area of the electrode group and the pressing tool during the pressing is larger than the area of a rectangle circumscribed about the foreign object. A short-circuit test is conducted at a given location inside the battery to comprehensively evaluate the safety of the battery under an internal short-circuit condition.

Method for evaluating battery safety under internal short-circuit condition, battery and battery pack whose safety is identified by internal short-circuit safety evaluation method, and method for producing the same

A solar cell () comprising a semiconductor solar cell substrate () having a light receiving surface formed on the first major surface and generating photovoltaic power based on the light impinging on the light receiving surface, wherein the light receiving surface of the semiconductor solar cell substrate () is coated with a light receiving surface side insulating film () composed of an inorganic insulating material where the cationic component principally comprising silicon, and the light receiving surface side insulating film () is a low hydrogen content inorganic insulating film containing less than 10 atm % of hydrogen. A solar cell having an insulating film exhibiting excellent passivation effect insusceptible to aging can thereby be provided.

Solar cell and method of fabricating the same

An aspect of the present invention relates to a magnetic recording medium comprising a coating layer on a nonmagnetic support, wherein the coating layer comprises a nonmagnetic layer comprising a nonmagnetic powder and a binder and a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder and a binder in this order, the nonmagnetic support comprises a main component in the form of a resin obtained by mixing and/or copolymerizing a polyester and a polymer having compatibility with the polyester, has a glass transition temperature of equal to or higher than 80&#xb0; C. but less than 125&#xb0; C., and has a heat absorption peak, based on enthalpy relaxation, ranging from 0.5 to 2.0 J/g. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium.

Magnetic recording medium and method of manufacturing the same

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masatoshi Takahashi