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20090234314 | Water-Absorbent Resin Composition, Method of Manufacturing the Same, and Absorbent Article - In one embodiment of the present invention, a water-absorbent resin composition is provided which shows only small reduction in liquid permeability and limited coloring over time or in relation to another factor. The water-absorbent resin composition (particulate absorbent agent) of the present invention contains: a polycarboxylate-based water-absorbent resin as a primary component, the resin having a crosslinked structure formed by polymerization of an acid group-containing unsaturated monomer; and multivalent metal cations (preferably, on surfaces of particles (i.e., the water-absorbent resin composition)) wherein: the multivalent metal cations other than Fe cations account for 0.001 to 1 mass % of the water-absorbent resin; and the ratio of the Fe cations to the multivalent metal cations other than the Fe cations is less than or equal to 5.00 mass %. | 09-17-2009 |
20100119312 | PARTICULATE WATER ABSORBING AGENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method includes the steps of: adding an organic surface cross-linking agent to a water absorbent resin having a cross-linked structure; adding a liquid permeability improving agent to the water absorbent resin concurrently with or after the addition of the organic surface cross-linking agent; and then adding a lubrication improving agent to the water absorbent resin. This provides a particulate water absorbing agent and a method for producing it, the particulate water absorbing agent being suitable for pneumatic transportation, suffering no decrease in the effect of the liquid permeability improving agent, and excelling in properties such as fluidity and damage resistance after the pneumatic transportation. | 05-13-2010 |
20110088806 | METHOD OF TRANSPORTING ABSORBENT RESIN POWDER - Provided is a method of transporting an absorbent resin powder, said method being suitable for long-distance transport, and being able to inhibit the deterioration of the properties of the absorbent resin powder while also inhibiting obstructions. During the manufacturing process, the absorbent resin powder is transported pneumatically via transport pipes. This transport method involves two or more air transport devices (A, B, C) within one transport section, and the air transport devices (A, B, C) are connected in series by transport pipes (P | 04-21-2011 |
20110110730 | TRANSPORT METHOD FOR ABSORBEND RESIN POWDER - [Problem] To provide a pneumatic conveyance method for a water-absorbing resin powder substance, which is capable of suppressing property decrease of the water-absorbing resin powder substance, while suppressing obstruction phenomenon. | 05-12-2011 |
20140031473 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYACRYLIC ACID (SALT)-BASED WATER ABSORBENT RESIN POWDER - From a viewpoint of reduction in an out of spec product after surface crosslinking, particularly, when an alkylene carbonate compound is used as a surface crosslinking agent, influence by an air temperature is great, and it is necessary to reduce ethylene glycol which is produced as a byproduct, and there is provided a process for producing a polyacrylic acid (salt)-based water absorbent resin powder, comprising
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20140042364 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING POLYACRYLIC ACID (SALT)-BASED WATER ABSORBENT RESIN POWDER - From a view pint of decreasing an out of spec product after surface crosslinking, particularly, when an alkylene carbonate compound is used as a surface crosslinking agent, influence due to an air temperature is great, and it is necessary to reduce ethylene glycol which is produced as a byproduct. | 02-13-2014 |
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20090085729 | VEHICLE REAR-VIEW MIRROR - To provide a vehicle rear-view mirror equipped with a display device, configured so that: a warning indication is easy to see from the driver and is hard to see from following vehicles and vehicles on the adjacent lanes; and when no warning is indicated, no discontinuities occur in the rear-area image reflected in the mirror and the warning symbol is unnoticeable. A mirror element | 04-02-2009 |
20090135493 | LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE-EQUIPPED REAR-VIEW MIRROR - Visibility of indications in a rear-view mirror incorporating a light-emitting display device is improved. A mirror element | 05-28-2009 |
20090244740 | LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE-EQUIPPED REAR-VIEW MIRROR - Interference of light is prevented from occurring in a rear-view mirror incorporating a light-emitting display device where a dark color mask member is arranged behind a mirror element. A mirror element is formed by forming a semi-transmissive reflective film on one surface of a transparent substrate. On a back surface of the mirror element, a dark color mask member is arranged. An opening a is formed in the dark color mask member. Behind the mirror element, a light-emitting display device is arranged facing the opening. A protrusion forming a spacer is formed on the entire peripheral edge of a front surface of the dark color mask member. The spacer provides a clearance gap between the semi-transmissive reflective film and the dark color mask member. | 10-01-2009 |
20100214662 | VEHICLE MIRROR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides a vehicle mirror and a manufacturing method therefor which allow the rear face side of a mirror element to be dark-colored without using a color plate or color coating. A mirror element is configured by forming a semitransparent reflective film made of a dielectric multilayer film on the front face of a flat transparent substrate. A dark-colored self-adhesive film is attached to the rear face of the mirror element. The dark-colored self-adhesive film is configured by forming an adhesive layer on the rear face of a dark-colored film layer by means of application. Grid-like air release channels are formed at fine pitches with minimal depth on an entire surface of the adhesive layer. After the dark-colored self-adhesive film is attached to the rear face of the mirror element, the grid-like air release channels visible from a front side of the mirror element are eliminated by heating and/or pressurizing. | 08-26-2010 |
20100245701 | MIRROR WITH MONITOR FOR VEHICLE - To provide a mirror with a monitor for a vehicle that allows display light to pass through a region of a mirror surface thereof to be visually recognized by a viewer, in which the viewability of the display is improved while suppressing the cost increase. A region of a mirror element that transmits display light is formed of a wire grid having a polarization direction that agrees with the polarization direction of the display light. A region of the mirror element adjacent to the wire grid is formed of a reflective film formed of a reflective metal film or a dielectric multilayer film. The grid of the wire grid is formed of Al thin lines, for example. The reflective film is formed of a Cr half mirror, for example. A dark color mask is disposed on the back surface of the Cr half mirror. | 09-30-2010 |
20100300488 | HYDROPHILICITY-RESTORING AGENT AND METHOD FOR RESTORING HYDROPHILICITY - The present invention provides a hydrophilicity-restoring agent for removing inorganic matter from a hydrophilic surface whose hydrophilicity has been reduced by the adhesion of the inorganic matter to thereby restore the hydrophilicity of the hydrophilic surface, and provides a method for restoring the hydrophilicity of a hydrophilic surface using the hydrophilicity-restoring agent. A gel of a hydrophilicity-restoring agent is prepared by mixing a thickener such as polyethylene glycol and xanthan gum with an aqueous solution in which a ligand such as citric acid to form a chelate complex is dissolved. The hydrophilicity of the hydrophilic surface is restored by applying the hydrophilicity-restoring agent to the hydrophilic surface with a reduced hydrophilicity and removing the hydrophilicity-restoring agent after an appropriate lapse of time. | 12-02-2010 |
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20090040778 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE-EQUIPPED REAR-VIEW MIRROR - The present invention is intended to provide an image pickup device-equipped rear view mirror with improved image pickup performance, glare prevention and appearance (design) in addition to improved performance as a vehicle mirror. A mirror element is formed by forming a reflecting film consisting of high refractive index material films and a low refractive index material film on a back surface of a transparent glass substrate. The integrating sphere reflectance of the mirror element in the visible range is 40% to 60% and the near-infrared transmittance is no less than 70% for the whole or part of the band belonging to the near-infrared range within the entire sensitive wavelength range of the near-infrared camera. A black mask member is attached to an entire back surface of the reflecting film. The near-infrared camera is arranged behind the black mask member. The region corresponding to the area for the image-pickup by the near-infrared camera within the entire region of the black mask member is formed of a visible-light absorption and near-infrared transmission filter. The near-infrared transmittance of the visible-light absorption and near-infrared transmission filter is no less than 70% for the whole or part of the band belonging to the near-infrared range within the entire sensitive wavelength range of the near-infrared camera. | 02-12-2009 |
20100297877 | COAXIAL CONNECTOR AND ASSEMBLING METHOD OF COAXIAL CONNECTOR - To provide a coaxial connector and an assembling method of the coaxial connector in which an operation efficiency can be enhanced, and also facilities related to the assembling can be simplified. The coaxial connector | 11-25-2010 |
20110300731 | WATERPROOF CONNECTOR - A waterproof connector has a first housing and a seal member. The first housing has an accommodation chamber which accommodates a terminal attached to an electric wire and a rear wall which defines part of the accommodation changer and has an insertion hole. The seal member has a terminal hole into which the terminal is inserted, is formed integrally with the first housing and is formed of an elastic material so as to be secured tight to an outer circumference of the electric wire. | 12-08-2011 |
20140248809 | FITTING TYPE CONNECTING TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - In a fitting type connecting terminal having male and female terminals, each of which has a tin plating layer formed on an electrically conductive base material, a surface of a contact portion of one of the male and female terminals with the other thereof has a plurality of grooves or recessed portions which are spaced from each other in longitudinal directions, and the grooves or recessed portions are formed so as to satisfy d≦b, d≦a≦L and a+c≦L assuming that the width of each of the grooves or recessed portions is | 09-04-2014 |
20140322991 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An electrical connector connecting a male connector and a female connector in a freely engageable and detachable manner, in which: a male tab is provided at the male connector; a housing part where the male tab is inserted is provided at the female connector; a spring state contact piece and a beat piece to sandwich the male tab are provided at the housing part; and a protrusion protruding toward the male tab inserted into the housing part is provided at least one of the contact piece and the beat piece, wherein the protrusion includes a contact part which is in contact with the male tab inserted into the housing part and a sidewall part which is provided at a periphery of the contact part, and the contact part has so-called a star-shape in a plan view. | 10-30-2014 |
20140322992 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An electrical connector connecting a male connector and a female connector in a freely engageable and detachable manner includes, a male tab is provided at the male connector; a housing part where the male tab is inserted is provided at the female connector; a contact piece and a beat piece to hold and press the male tab to enable electrical connection are provided at the housing part; and a protrusion is provided at least at one of the contact piece and the beat piece, and a recessed part capable of accepting the protrusion is provided at the male tab, wherein the contact piece, the beat piece, and the protrusion are constituted to be one component. | 10-30-2014 |
20150064987 | CONNECTOR - A terminal includes a terminal body, and a press-fitting protrusion protruding from the terminal body in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the terminal to be press-fitted in the terminal holding hole. The press-fitting protrusion includes a first protrusion portion, and a second protrusion portion disposed rearward of the first protrusion in an insertion direction and protruding father in the orthogonal direction than the first protrusion portion. The terminal has, between the first protrusion portion and the second protrusion portion, a first connection portion having a width larger than a width of the terminal body. | 03-05-2015 |
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20140198406 | STORAGE DEVICE, SWEEP OPERATION CONTROL METHOD AND SWEEP OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM - A storage device which includes a plurality of magnetic disk drives has a storage unit that stores, for each of the plurality of magnetic disk drives, information of whether or not the magnetic disk drive is incorporated in a redundant structure, a specifying unit that specifies, among the plurality of magnetic disk drives, a plurality of magnetic disk drives which have a redundant structure on the basis of the information stored in the storage unit, and a control unit that controls, for the plurality of magnetic disk drives specified by the specifying unit, an execution timing of sweep operation in which a head smoothes a lubricant material such that the sweep operation is executed for a single magnetic disk drive at a time. | 07-17-2014 |
20140289493 | CONTROL DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN CONTROL PROGRAM - A control device including a processor. The processor configured to allocate a data area of a memory device to a plurality of memory areas of data blocks of a first size; allocate identical data blocks of the first size to a plurality of the data areas of the memory device; manage management information indicating a data storing state of the plurality of memory areas of data blocks of the first size in each data area; determine, based on the management information regarding a plurality of data areas allocated with respect to a data block to be written, one data area from the plurality of data areas; and generate write data of a second size, which is different from the first size, including data of the data block to be written and write the write data in the one data area. | 09-25-2014 |
20150121021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STORAGE DEVICES - Write commands for a storage device specify write data with either a first data step size or a second data step size. In the former case, the storage device performs a read-modify-write (RMW) cycle which includes reading data with the second data step size. In the latter case, the storage device executes the command in a single write cycle. A command sorting unit sorts received commands into two groups, first commands and second commands, when storing them in a memory. First commands are write commands whose data boundaries do not match with the second data step size. Second commands include write commands whose data boundaries match with the second data step size. A command issuing unit converts first commands into a second command upon predetermined conditions. The command issuing unit issues the second commands to the storage device, in preference to the first commands. | 04-30-2015 |
20150242131 | STORAGE CONTROL DEVICE AND STORAGE APPARATUS - An HDD driving unit | 08-27-2015 |
20150347224 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - In response to a write request for write data, a write control unit writes the write data to a first memory device with the addition of an additional data piece to be updated with each write to the same storage area while writing the additional data piece, within a second memory device, to a storage area corresponding to the write data. In response to a read request for read request, a read control unit reads the read data and an additional data piece added to the read data from the first memory device while reading an additional data piece, within the second memory device, from a storage area corresponding to the read data, and determines validity of the read data based on a checked result obtained by checking the additional data pieces individually read from the first and the second memory devices. | 12-03-2015 |