Kuraray Co., Ltd.

Kurarayco., Ltd.

Denka Company Limited

Shinya Inada

Takashi Katayama

Saburo Hada

Hiroyuki Kawai

Masakazu Nishiyama

Hideki Kamada

Yoshihiro Iwasaki

Tomohiro Hayakawa

Hideo Hayashi

Akira Imagawa

Taketoshi Okuno

Akio Ohmory

Tomoyuki Sano

Akira Kubotsu

Takayuki Higuchi

Hayami Yoshimochi

Satoru Kobayashi

Masahiro Satoh

Minoru Morioka

Nozomu Sugoh

Takayoshi Hosoya

Isao Tokunaga

Junichi Taniguchi

Yoshinori Hitomi

Suguru Mizuki

Soichiro Ikehata

Katsuaki Iriuchijima

Makoto Shoji

Hiroaki Noritake

To provide a molded body which has high strength, high ductility, and excellent dimensional stability while maintaining incombustibility and fire resistance. A molded body formed from a curable composition containing (A) at least one aluminosilicate source, (B) an alkali metal hydroxide, (C) a calcium ion source, and (D) an alkali resistant fiber, wherein the aluminosilicate source (A) has an SiOcontent of 50% by mass or more based on a total mass of the aluminosilicate source (A), an amorphous ratio of 50% by mass or higher, and an average particle diameter of 50 &#x3bc;m or smaller, and comprises an aluminosilicate source having an average particle diameter of 10 &#x3bc;m or smaller in an amount of 30% by mass or more based on the total mass of the aluminosilicate source (A).

Molded body formed from curable composition

A concrete tile comprising a tile body, the tile body having an upper face hardened through non-mold shaping, a lower face hardened through mold shaping, and a side surface that includes a cut end face in at least one side of the tile body, wherein the tile body contains alkali-resistant fiber in an entire thickness thereof in a state substantially free of fiber-containing granular bodies; the alkali-resistant fibers comprise at least one member selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol-based fibers, polyethylene fibers, polypropylene fibers, acrylic fibers, and aramid fibers; and a flexural strength of a 30 mm&#xd7;150 mm sized cut piece of the tile body is not less than 6 N/mm.

Concrete tile and molding material for same

A roof tile containing fibers which satisfy the following requirements (1) to (3):

Fiber-containing roof tile, molding material for producing fiber-containing roof tile, and process for producing same

Provided is a fiber-reinforced carbonated hydraulic inorganic molded plate having a high bulk specific gravity, a high flexural strength, and a small dimensional change rate per specific gravity. (1) A fiber-reinforced carbonated hydraulic inorganic molded plate including: a cement component, a pulp, and a reinforcing fiber having an aspect ratio in a range of 40 to 1000; and being a carbonation-cured molded plate. (2) A molded plate being a cured product of a composition including at least a cement component, a pulp, and a reinforcing fiber, wherein the molded plate is a fiber-reinforced carbonated hydraulic inorganic molded plate and has a carbonation reaction rate of higher than or equal to 30%.

Fiber-reinforced carbonated hydraulic inorganic molded plate and method for producing same

The present invention relates to a filter material including a sheet-like laminate which includes an ultrafine fiber aggregate layer formed of an aggregate of ultrafine fibers produced by an electrospinning method having an average fiber diameter of not less than 10 nm and not more than 1000 nm, and a base material formed of a nonwoven fabric or a woven fabric constituted from fibers having an average fiber diameter of 1 &#x3bc;m or more, said filter material satisfying all of a plurality of specific requirements, having a capability of collecting or separating &#x3bc;m-order microfine particles with a high accuracy and exhibiting a less pressure loss and a long filtering life, as well as a filter cartridge using the filter material.

Filtration material for filters, and filter cartridge

Provided is a separator for alkaline batteries which can not only prevent batteries from internal short circuit by inhibiting the dendrite formation at anode, but also enables to have a low electrical resistance. The separator for alkaline batteries comprises a composite sheet in which a base layer comprising a wet-type nonwoven material formed from alkaline resistant fibers is covered with a nanofiber layer comprising a modified polyvinyl alcohol fiber which has a fiber diameter of 10 to 1000 nm and a liquid absorption amount by fibers of 4.0 to 40.0 g/g after immersion in a 35% aqueous solution of KOH.

Separator for alkaline battery, method for producing the same, and battery

Laminates including a nanofiber layer and a base layer, the nanofiber layer comprising polyamide filaments formed from a polyamide (a) and having an average fiber diameter of 10 to 1000 nm, and the base layer comprising fibers at least including polyamide fibers formed from a polyamide (a), where the polyamide (a) comprises a dicarboxylic acid unit and a diamine unit and where (i) the dicarboxylic acid unit comprising a terephthalic acid unit in the proportion of not lower than 60% by mole, and (ii) the diamine unit comprising at least one diamine unit selected from the group consisting of 1,9-nonanediamine unit and 2-methyl-1,8-octanediamine unit in the proportion of not lower than 60% by mole in total are provided, as well as separators for capacitors including the laminates.

Laminate, separator for capacitor, and capacitor

High-absorbent polyvinyl alcohol fibers and nonwoven fabric comprising them

Flame-retardant polyvinyl alcohol base fiber

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Okayama, Japan

Shinya Inada