Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Nonogawa Shoji, Ltd.

Shigeru Sasaki

Hiroshi Maki

Toru Onodera

Takanobu Noguchi

Daizaburo Yashiki

Yoshiaki Tsubata

Mitsuo Matsumoto

Hideaki Oka

Kohei Asada

Haruhisa Harada

Arihiro Yashiro

Yasuaki Hidaka

Shuji Doi

Masato Ueda

Toshihiro Ohnishi

Kenichi Hamada

Haruhisa Masuda

Yoshihiro Morishita

Takeshi Yamada

Makoto Anryu

Takumi Taniguchi

Atsushi Inoue

Manabu Fujii

Tomoya Nakatani

Nobutaka Kunimi

Takahiro Ueoka

Kouji Toishi

Tetsuya Hara

Kentaro Masui

Masaki Okazaki

Eiji Nakamura

Shunichi Shibasaki

Hideharu Matsuoka

Tomio Sakurai

Yoshikazu Umemoto

Fumio Sanda

Keiko Hirano

Masaaki Takenaka

Keiko Kawaguchi

Norihide Hakamata

Shinsuke Yano

A tank fixing apparatus includes: first and second bands adjacent to each other, each including a fixed portion fixed to a support member supporting a tank, a pressing portion extending from the fixed portion and pressing an outer periphery of the tank toward the support member, and a distal end portion extending from the pressing portion and not fixed to the support member; first and second fixing portions fixing the fixed portions of the first and second bands to the support member, respectively; and first and second urging portions urging the first and second bands to give pressing forces for the tank to the pressing portions of the first and second bands, respectively. A direction of the first band extending from the fixed portion to the distal end portion is opposite to a direction of the second band extending from the fixed portion to the distal end portion.

Tank fixing apparatus

A vehicle includes: a vehicle body; a gas tank having a tank main body that includes a cylindrical barrel part and a cap that is provided at one end of the tank main body in a longitudinal direction; a bracket fixing the cap to the vehicle body; and a band surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the barrel part and fixing the barrel part to the vehicle body, wherein the gas tank is arranged such that the longitudinal direction extends along a front-rear direction of the vehicle, the bracket includes an engaging part that restrict movement of the gas tank in the longitudinal direction by engaging with an engaged part provided in the cap, and movement of the gas tank in the longitudinal direction is restricted by the engaging part only at the one end, and not at the other end, of the gas tank in the longitudinal direction.

Vehicle

A composition comprising (1) a first crosslinkable polymer compound having an aromatic conjugated repeating unit and a crosslinkable group and having at least one of a light emitting property and charge transportability, and (2) a second crosslinkable polymer compound having an aromatic conjugated repeating unit and a crosslinkable group at least one of which is different from the aromatic conjugated repeating unit in the first crosslinkable polymer compound and the crosslinkable group in the first crosslinkable polymer compound, and having at least one of a light emitting property and charge transportability, wherein at least one of the first crosslinkable polymer compound and the second crosslinkable polymer compound has a crosslinkable group represented by the following formula (Z-3) or (Z-4): in the formulae, Rrepresents a hydrogen atom, or a substituent such as an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group or the like, the plurality of Rmoieties may be the same or different.

Composition and light emitting device using the same

A tank fixing apparatus includes: a first band including a first fixed portion fixed to a support member supporting a tank, a first pressing portion extending from the first fixed portion and pressing the tank toward the support member, and a first distal end portion extending from the first pressing portion and not fixed to the support member; an urging portion giving a pressing force for the first band; a first fixing portion fixing the first fixed portion to the support member; a second band including a second fixed portion fixed to the support member or the first band, a second pressing portion extending from the second fixed portion and pressing the tank, and a second distal end portion extending from the second pressing portion and not fixed to the support member; and a second fixing portion fixing the second fixed portion to the support member or the first band.

A luminescent composition comprising a luminescent organic compound and a conjugated polymer compound having a luminescence maximum further toward the short wavelength end than the luminescence maximum of the luminescent organic compound at 350 nm to 500 nm, and satisfying the following formula (1);()&#xd7;&#x2267;0.04&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)in the formula,

Luminescent composition and light-emitting element using said composition

A light emitting material included in a light emitting device. The light emitting material includes a conjugated polymer having a conjugated part and a blue light emitting compound having a blue light emitting part and satisfies the following formula y&#x2267;log(5.1&#xd7;x+1), wherein y represents the amount of light emitted by the blue light emitting compound where the total amount of light emitted by the conjugated polymer and the blue light emitting compound in the light emitting material due to excitation caused by light having a wavelength of 370 nm is 1, and provided that the gram light absorption coefficient of the conjugated polymer and the blue light emitting compound in the light emitting material are expressed by &#x3b5;and &#x3b5;, and further the content of the blue light emitting compound is expressed by P(parts by mass) where the total content of the conjugated polymer and the blue light emitting compound in the light emitting material is 100 parts by mass, x is defined by the formula: X=(&#x3b5;2/&#x3b5;1)&#xd7;Pcorresponds to x.

Light emitting material, ink composition, thin film, light emitting device and method for manufacturing light emitting device

A block copolymer comprising at least one segment having an acid group which is represented by the following formula (1) and at least one segment substantially free from acid groups which comprises repeating units represented by the following formula (2) is provided: (wherein, m represents an integer of 10 or more, Ar, Arand Arrepresent each independently a divalent aromatic group which is optionally substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or aryloxy group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, at least one of Arand Arhaving an acid group, and Armay have an acid group or may be free from acid groups. Y represents &#x2014;CO&#x2014; or &#x2014;SO&#x2014;, and Y's may be different from each other.) (wherein, n represents an integer of 10 or more, Arand Arrepresent each independently a divalent aromatic group which is optionally substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, aryloxy group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or flouro group. Z represents &#x2014;CO&#x2014; or &#x2014;SO&#x2014;, and Z's may be different from each other). The block copolymer exerts more excellent performances as the polymer electrolyte in fuel cells and the like.

Block copolymers and use thereof

A polymer electrolyte satisfying both of proton conductivity and chemical stability such as water resistance at a high level that is preferable as the polymer electrolyte for fuel cells and the like is provided. The invention includes a block copolymer comprising one or more segments having an ion exchange group and one or more segments having substantially no ion exchange group, wherein at least one of the segments having an ion exchange groupis the segment represented by the following general formula (1A), (1B) or (1C): and the segment has ion exchange group density of 4.0 meq/g or more, and the segments having substantially no ion exchange groupis the segment represented by the following general formula (2): 

Block copolymer and use thereof

An aromatic-polyether-type ion conductive polymer membrane having improved mechanical strength is provided. An aromatic-polyether-type ion-conductive ultrahigh molecular weight polymer having an ion exchange capacity of 0.1 meq/g or higher and a structure comprising an aromatic-polyether-type ultrahigh molecular weight polymer in which an acid group introduced, said aromatic-polyether-type ultrahigh molecular weight polymer having at least one structural unit selected from those represented by the following formulas (1) and (2) and the sum of the number a of the structural unit of the formula (1) and the number b of the structural unit of the formula (2) being 2 or larger:Ar&#x2014;O&#x2014;Ar&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)Ar&#x2014;O&#x2014;Ar&#x2003;&#x2003;(2).

Aromatic-polyether-type ion-conductive ultrahigh molecular weight polymer, intermediate therefor, and process for producing these

A block copolymer comprising at least one segment having an acid group and at least one segment substantially free from acid groups is provided wherein the segment substantially free from acid groups contains a structure of the following general formula (1):Ar&#x2014;Z&#x2014;Ar&#x2014;O&#x2014;Ar&#x2014;O&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)(wherein, m represents an integer of 10 or more, Ar, Arand Arrepresent mutually independently a divalent aromatic group which may be substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an aryloxy group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, and Z represents &#x2014;CO&#x2014; or &#x2014;SO&#x2014;, each Z in the segments representing independently &#x2014;CO&#x2014; or &#x2014;SO&#x2014;). The block copolymer exhibits more excellent performances as a polymer electrolyte for fuel cells or the like.

A polymeric fluorescent substance exhibiting fluorescence in the solid state, having a polystyrene reduced number-average molecular weight of 1&#xd7;10to 1&#xd7;10, and comprising one or more repeating units of formula (1) and one or more repeating units of formula (8),&#x2014;Ar&#x2014;(CR&#x2550;CR)&#x2014;&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)&#x2014;Ar&#x2014;(CR&#x2550;CR)&#x2014;&#x2003;&#x2003;(8)wherein Arrepresents a specific arylene or a divalent heterocyclic compound group, and Arrepresent an arylene or a divalent heterocyclic compound group other than Ar. By using the polymeric fluorescent substance, a high performance polymer LED can easily be obtained.

Polymeric fluorescent substance and polymer light-emitting device using the same

Provided is an aromatic polymer phosphonic acid derivative in which a phosphonic acid derivative group is directly bound to aromatic ring. Said aromatic polymer phosphonic acid derivative can be produced by brominating a specific aromatic polymer compound with a brominating agent, then acting thereon trialkyl phosphite in the presence of a nickel halide catalyst to give a phosphonic acid di-ester, and further, by hydrolyzing the di-ester. The aromatic polymer phosphonic acid derivative is excellent in radical resistance and used for a solid polymer type fuel cell.

Aromatic polymer phosphonic acid derivative and process for production the same

A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising (I) 100 parts by weight of at least one block copolymer formed by addition polymerization which is selected among block copolymers which comprise a polymer block (A) consisting of aromatic vinyl units and a polymer block (B) consisting of conjugated diene compound units and which have been crosslinked in the polymer block (A) preferably with a structural unit derived from a (C&#x2013;Calkyl)styrene and/or functional group and among products of hydrogenation of the copolymers, (II) 10 to 300 parts by weight of a polyolefin, and (III) 0 to 300 parts by weight of a softener (III) for rubbers; and a process for producing the composition. The composition has excellent strain recovery at high temperatures and satisfactory moldability, is flexible, and has satisfactory rubber properties. It is effectively useable in various applications.

Thermoplastic elastomer composition

A polyamide composition comprising 100 parts by weight of (A) a semiaromatic polyamide having dicarboxylic acid units mainly composed of aromatic dicarboxylic acid units and diamine units mainly composed of aliphatic diamine units having 4 to 14 carbon atoms and containing not more than 15 &#x3bc;eq/g of terminal amino groups; and 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of (B) a copper compound.

Polyamide composition

Polymer electrolyte composition and uses thereof

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Shigeru Sasaki