Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Zuiko Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sysmex Corporation

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Toyo Aluminium Kabushiki Kaisha

Sunstar Giken Kabushiki Kaisha

Sunstar Suisse S.a.

Satoshi Tanaka

Masaki Nakakado

Ikuo Tachibana

Masaomi Hioki

Tomohiro Machida

Yuzo Ichiura

Toyoshi Umebayashi

Hideki Ishihara

Taro Okabe

Hitoshi Satoh

Takayuki Hattori

Tetsuya Haruna

Kenichi Uesaka

Yoshiaki Miyamoto

Masaharu Takada

Takashi Watsuji

Shinji Okuda

Tomoko Matsushima

Jun Nishibayashi

Kunio Kamimura

Jun Ochi

Yoshinobu Umetani

Masatoshi Yanagida

Takashi Tomita

Yasushi Shinmura

Masaki Shibayama

Ikuo Atake

Moritaka Nakamura

Yuko Kawasaki

Hirokazu Kurata

Yoshikazu Kawagoe

Junzou Wakuda

Tadashi Ito

Tatsuo Saga

Akiko Funakoshi

Kazutoshi Makimura

Shinji Bessyo

Aya Katayama

Kosuke Ochi

Syuhei Kurata

Masao Yamagishi

Masakazu Kadowaki

Hitoshi Uga

Masafumi Ikeda

Keisuke Ohhira

Takahiro Okazawa

Gao-Chao Lai

Kenzo Kojo

Yoshihiro Ohishi

Shuzo Ishii

Masahiro Ohbasami

Mikiyasu Ishii

Kiyofumi Inoue

Yoshinari Tanaka

Hisashi Joyashiki

In a tire, a treadincludes a tread main bodyand edge portions. A wear resistance index of each edge portionobtained according to JIS K6264-2 is higher than that of the tread main body. An outer surface S of the tireincludes a tread surface ST, a pair of shoulder surfaces SH connected to the tread surface ST, and a pair of side surfaces SW connected to the shoulder surfaces SH. Each shoulder surface SH includes an outer surface formed by the edge portion, and a contour of each shoulder surface SH is represented by a circular arc having a center at an inner side.

Heavy duty pneumatic tire

A method for manufacturing an optical fiber preform including a core part and a cladding part is disclosed. The method includes: adding an alkali metal to an inner surface of a silica-based glass pipe; etching the inner surface of the silica-based glass pipe to which the alkali metal is added; making a glass rod by collapsing the silica-based glass pipe after the etching; and making an optical fiber preform using the glass rod. The silica-based glass pipe is heated in the adding such that a surface temperature of the silica-based glass pipe falls within a temperature range of 1500&#xb0; C. or higher to lower than 2000&#xb0; C.

Method for manufacturing optical fiber parent material, and method for manufacturing optical fiber

A tireincludes: a pair of beads; a carcass plyhaving a ply main bodyand turned-up portions; and a pair of fillersthat are located outward of the turned-up portionsin the axial direction and that include metal cords. In a radial direction, a first endof each filleris located inward of a bead base line, and a second endof each filleris located between an endof the turned-up portionand the bead base line. A recessis provided on a zone of each side surfaceof the tirebetween a maximum width position and the endof the turned-up portion

A pneumatic tire is provided in the tread portion with a main groove and an axial groove. The groove-sidewall surface on each side of the main groove is formed by a circular-arc-like surface having a radius Rof curvature and being convex to the groove center side. The groove-sidewall surface on each side of the axial groove is formed by a circular-arc-like surface having a radius Rof curvature and being convex to the groove center side. The radius Rof curvature of the groove-sidewall surface of the axial groove is more than the radius Rof curvature of the groove-sidewall surface of the main groove.

Pneumatic tire

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with blocks each provided with a first variable depth sipe and a second variable depth sipe each having both axial ends opened at edges of the block on both sides thereof in the tire axial direction. In each block, a shallow portion of the first variable depth sipe overlaps, in the tire axial direction, with a deep main portion of the second variable depth sipe. an axial groove dividing the blocks is provided with a tie bar overlapping, in the tire axial direction, with the deep main portion of the adjacent variable depth sipe.

A pneumatic tire is provided with a center land portion between two zigzag crown main grooves, and two middle land portions between two zigzag shoulder main grooves and the two crown main grooves. Each center block is provided with center sipes between which a central part defining the maximum width of the center block is formed. The middle land portion is divided into middle blocks by alternate, oppositely inclined first middle axial grooves and second middle axial grooves. Each middle block is provided with nonparallel middle sipes.

A heavy duty pneumatic tire includes main grooves that extend in the tire circumferential direction. A siped block is provided with at least one sipe to circumferentially subdivide the block into at least two block pieces that include at least one holed block piece provided with at least one small hole. Each small hole extends radially inwardly from the ground contacting surface of the holed block piece to its bottom at a depth in a range of from 30 to 100% of a depth of the main grooves. Each small hole has a round cross-sectional shape to have a maximum radius in a range of from 0.6 to 2.0 mm at the opening of the small hole in the ground contacting top surface. The total opening area of the at least one small hole is 2 to 12% of the overall area of the ground contacting top surface.

The present invention relates to a marker allowing specific detection of human IL-17-producing helper T-cells (human Th17 cells), a method for specifically detecting human Th17 cells and a reagent for detecting human Th17 cells.

Marker and reagent for detection of human IL-17-producing helper T cells, and method for detection of human IL-17-producing helper T cells

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion provided with a tread element provided with a pair of sipes. Each sipe comprises a radially outer constant width part and a widening part extending radially inwardly from the constant width part while gradually increasing the width of the sipe and then extending to the radially inner end of the sipe while gradually decreasing the width of the sipe. Each of the paired sipes has an inside sidewall surface positioned toward the other of the paired sipes and an outside sidewall surface positioned away from the other of the paired sipes. The inside sidewall surface includes an inside curved bottom surface having a radius of curvature Rib. The outside sidewall surface includes an outside curved bottom surface having a radius of curvature Rob more than the radius of curvature Rib.

A heavy duty pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with a pair of shoulder main grooves disposed axially outermost side, and at a center main groove between the shoulder main grooves to form a pair of middle portions. Each middle portion is provided with a middle sub groove, axially outer middle lateral grooves, and inner middle lateral grooves. The respective number of outer and inner middle lateral grooves are of from 40 to 50 in each middle portion. Each of the outer and inner middle lateral grooves includes a shallow bottom part having a depth smaller than that of the shoulder and center main grooves. The shallow bottom part is provided with a groove bottom sipe that extends along a longitudinal direction of each lateral grooves and includes a first portion, and a second portion having a depth smaller than the first portion.

A paste composition for forming a back surface electrode of a solar cellprovided by the present invention contains, as solid matter, an aluminum powder, a glass powder, and a composite powder composed of a granular composite material of titanium oxide and an organic or inorganic compound containing silicon. When the total amount of the composite powder, the aluminum powder, and the glass powder is 100% by mass, the composite powder is contained in a ratio of 0.45% by mass or more and 1% by mass or less.

Paste composition for solar cell, method for producing same, and solar cell

A rotation device includes an endless guide that defines a continuous circular path, a plurality of moving sections whose movement is guided by the endless guide, and a plurality of pads. Each pad is capable of carrying an article thereon, and each pad is mounted to a respective moving section. A method for producing a worn article using such a rotation device includes the following steps: (i) rotating a fixed pivot point about a first axis where a link connects the pivot point to the moving section; (ii) guiding a moving section along the path defined by the endless guide, where the endless guide has a second axis parallel to but offset from the first axis; (iii) receiving an article by the pad, where the rotating and guiding steps change a spacing interval between adjacent pads; and (iv) releasing the article from the pad after the spacing interval has changed.

Method and apparatus for producing wearing article

A method for judging feature of malignant tumor is described. The method comprises obtaining step, first comparing step, second comparing step and judging step. The obtaining step comprises obtaining a first parameter based on activity and expression level of a first cyclin dependent kinase (first CDK) contained in a tumor cell of the malignant tumor, a second parameter based on activity and expression level of a second cyclin dependent kinase (second CDK) contained in the tumor cell, a third parameter based on the first parameter and the second parameter, and a fourth parameter based on expression level of a cyclin contained in the tumor cell. The first comparing step comprises comparing a first threshold value with the third parameter. The second comparing comprises comparing a second threshold value with the fourth parameter. The judging step comprises judging the feature of the malignant tumor based on the comparison results of the first comparing step and the second comparing step.

Method for judging feature of malignant tumor

A method for producing a wearing article of the present invention includes the steps of: supplying an elastic member; stretching the elastic member; placing the stretched elastic member so that the elastic member spreads across a plurality of first webs divided in a transport direction; making a part of a second web loose in the transport direction while transporting the second web, thereby forming a loose portion; placing the first webs, on which the elastic member is disposed, on non-loose portions before and after the loose portion of the second web; and cutting the elastic member between adjacent first webs of the plurality of first webs.

A fabrication method of a solar battery includes at least an aluminum electrode formation step of applying, drying and baking aluminum paste on at least a portion of the back side of a solar cell to form an aluminum electrode, and a cooling step of cooling the solar cell having an aluminum electrode formed at an atmosphere temperature of not more than 10&#xb0; C., after the aluminum electrode formation step. Accordingly, a solar battery having warping reduced without degrading the electric characteristics, reliability and appearance, and a fabrication method thereof are provided.

Solar battery and fabrication method thereof

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Osaka, Japan

Satoshi Tanaka