Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, Inc.

Mitsui Chemicals Ict Materia, Inc.

Tomoaki Ito

Shigenobu Ikenaga

Fumito Takeuchi

Motoyasu Yasui

Kazuoki Nakai

Kenji Iida

Keiji Watanabe

Fumiaki Saikawa

Nobuhiro Maruko

Shiori Hanada

Kazuhiro Yarimizu

Masaaki Odoi

Shiori Ito

Satoru Okada

Takanobu Murofushi

Jun Tokuhiro

Hirokazu Mizuma

Masaaki Yoshikai

Kaoru Ohshimizu

Yukinori Asakawa

Masanari Ota

Fumihiko Kokido

Aya Takeuchi

A knee supporter, including a tubular supporter main body including: a knee anterior surface part; a knee posterior surface part; a femoral side anterior surface part; a femoral side posterior surface part; a tibial side anterior surface part; and a tibial side posterior surface part, wherein elastic moduli, in an axial direction of the tubular supporter main body, when stretched by 80% in the axial direction of the tubular supporter main body, satisfy the following Formula (1) to (3): Formula (1): 0.7&#x2264;knee posterior surface part/knee anterior surface part; Formula (2): 1&#x3c;femoral side anterior surface part/femoral side posterior surface part; and Formula (3): 1&#x3c;tibial side anterior surface part/tibial side posterior surface part.

Knee supporter and garment

A garment, containing a tubular joint supporter section, the section including: a central region in an axial direction of the tubular joint supporter section, which includes a wear pressure applying region for applying wear pressure to a joint site of a body, a one-end side region positioned at one end, and an other-end side region positioned at another end side, in which the wear pressure of the wear pressure applying region is higher than an average wear pressure of the one-end and other-end side regions, and regions other than the wear pressure applying region in the section include a concave-convex structure region formed from a concave-convex structure; and a knee supporter, in which an average wear pressure A of the knee support section is higher than an average wear pressure B of the thigh side support section and the shin side support section.

Garment provided with joint supporter section, and knee supporter

Knee supporter

An encapsulating material for solar cell of the invention contains an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer, and a content of a fluorine element in the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer, which is determined using a combustion method and an ion chromatograph method, is equal to or less than 30 ppm.

Encapsulating material for solar cell and solar cell module

The encapsulating material for solar cell is an encapsulating material for solar cell including an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer and an organic peroxide having a one-minute half-life temperature in a range of 100&#xb0; C. to 170&#xb0; C. In addition, the complex viscosity of the encapsulating material for solar cell has the minimum value (&#x3b7;) of the complex viscosity at a temperature in a range of 100&#xb0; C. to lower than 135&#xb0; C., the minimum value (&#x3b7;) of the complex viscosity is in a range of 6.0&#xd7;10Pa&#xb7;s to 4.0&#xd7;10Pa&#xb7;s, the complex viscosity (&#x3b7;) of the encapsulating material for solar cell at 150&#xb0; C. is in a range of 2.0&#xd7;10Pa&#xb7;s to 1.0&#xd7;10Pa&#xb7;s, and the content of the organic peroxide in the encapsulating material for solar cell is in a range of 0.1 parts by weight to 3 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer.

An encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer satisfying the following a1) and a2), and a specific peroxyketal having a 1-hour half-life temperature in a range of 100 to 135 degrees centigrade; the peroxyketal being contained in an amount of 0.1 to less than 0.8 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts of the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer.

Solar cell sealing material, method for manufacturing solar cell sealing material, and solar cell module

An encapsulating material for solar cell that is capable of suppressing the corrosion of metal and the occurrence of yellowing at a high temperature and has excellent long-term reliability in a constant temperature and humidity is provided. The encapsulating material for solar cell of the invention contains an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer, a hindered amine-based light stabilizer, a hindered phenol-based stabilizer, and a phosphorous-based stabilizer as essential components.

An encapsulating material for solar cell excellent in a balance among properties including transparency, flexibility, adhesiveness, heat resistance, appearance, crosslinking properties, electrical properties and calender moldability. The encapsulating material includes an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements: (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from &#x3b1;-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is equal to or more than 2 g/10 minutes and less than 10 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cmas measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.

An encapsulating material for solar cell of the invention contains an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer, an organic peroxide, at least one crosslinking aid selected from a group consisting of divinyl aromatic compounds, cyanurates, diallyl compounds, triallyl compounds, oximes and maleimides, and a (meth)acrylate-based monomer. The content of the (meth)acrylate-based monomer in the encapsulating material for solar cell is in a range of 0.1 parts by weight to 5.0 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer, and the content of the crosslinking aid in the encapsulating material for solar cell is in a range of 0.1 parts by weight to 3 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer.

An encapsulating material for solar cell is made of a resin composition containing a crosslinkable resin, and satisfies the following 1) and 2). 1) When the encapsulating material for solar cell is immersed in acetone at 23&#xb0; C. for one hour after a crosslinking treatment in which the encapsulating material for solar cell is heated and depressurized at 150&#xb0; C. and 250 Pa for three minutes, and then is heated and pressurized at 150&#xb0; C. and 100 kPa for 15 minutes, an acetone-absorbing ratio is in a range of 3.5 weight % to 12.0 weight % with respect to the weight of the above-described crosslinking-treated encapsulating material for solar cell. 2) A volume resistivity of the above-described crosslinking-treated encapsulating material for solar cell, which is based on JIS K6911 and measured at a temperature of 100&#xb0; C. with an applied voltage of 500 V, is in a range of 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm to 1.0&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm.

A solar-cell sealant that has excellent properties such as transparency, flexibility, adhesiveness, heat resistance, appearance, cross-linking characteristics, electrical characteristics, and calenderability. A solar-cell sealant that contains an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin/unconjugated-polyene copolymer satisfying requirements (a1) through (a3). Requirement (a1) is that constituent units derived from ethylene constitute 80-90 mol %, constituent units derived from C3-20 &#x3b1;-olefin constitute 9.99-19.99 mol %, and constituent units derived from an unconjugated polyene constitute 0.01-5.0 mol % of said copolymer. Requirement (a2) is that the MFR of said copolymer, as measured in accordance with ASTM D1238 at 190&#xb0; C. under a 2.16 kg load, be at least 2 g/10 min. and less than 10 g/10 min. Requirement (a3) is that the Shore A hardness of said copolymer, as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240, be 60 to 85.

Solar-cell sealant and solar-cell module using same

Disclosed is an encapsulating material for solar cell containing an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer satisfying the following requirements (a1) to (a4): (a1) the content ratio of structural units derived from ethylene is from 80 to 90 mol % and the content ratio of structural units derived from &#x3b1;-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is from 10 to 20 mol %; (a2) MFR is from 10 to 50 g/10 minutes as measured under the conditions of a temperature of 190 degrees centigrade and a load of 2.16 kg in accordance with ASTM D1238; (a3) the density is from 0.865 to 0.884 g/cmas measured in accordance with ASTM D1505; and (a4) the shore A hardness is from 60 to 85 as measured in accordance with ASTM D2240.

A transparent and conductive laminate that is substantially decreased in reactive defects, and a display filter, a heat-ray reflecting film and an electromagnetic wave-shielding film comprising the laminate are provided. The laminate includes a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive thin-film layer containing silver, and a protective layer containing a binder material and inorganic fine particles, wherein the transparent conductive thin-film layer is in contact with the protective layer. The generation of reflective defects can be outstandingly reduced. Therefore, a laminate superior in electromagnetic wave-shielding ability, heat-ray reflecting ability and visibility for a long period of time and products comprising the laminate can be obtained.

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Ichihara, Japan

Tomoaki Ito