Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090127979 | Actuator - An actuator includes a spirally rolled cylindrical sheet body. The sheet body is formed by attaching an electrode on each side of a dielectric elastomer layer. When a voltage is applied to the electrodes, the sheet body is contracted along the direction of its thickness, and expanded in directions perpendicular to its thickness. The actuator is actuated by applying a voltage to the electrodes and stopping the voltage application, so that the cylindrical sheet body is extended and contracted along the direction of the axis. The material forming the dielectric elastomer layer has a low strain region, where the value of a strain based on a stress acting on the dielectric elastomer layer varies from zero to a value that is greater than and close to zero, and a high strain region, where the value of the strain is greater than that in the low strain region. The Young's modulus in the low strain region is less than the Young's modulus in the high strain region. | 05-21-2009 |
20110005142 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GEL-LIKE ABRASIVE MATERIAL AND GEL-LIKE ABRASIVE MATERIAL - An abrasive that can impart a mirror finish, glossiness, or the like to a surface of a workpiece by blasting is provided. A crosslinked polyrotaxane compound having a network structure where crosslinking points are circular molecules of polyrotaxane and also having abrasive grains dispersedly mixed therein is obtained by causing chemical bonding between the circular molecules of the polyrotaxane in a state where the abrasive grains and the polyrotaxane are mixed. Then, the crosslinked polyrotaxane compound is granulated to a predetermined grain diameter to obtain a gel-like abrasive where a part of the dispersedly mixed abrasive grain is exposed at the surface. By using the thus-obtained gel-like abrasive in blasting by projecting the abrasive at an angle tilted with respect to a surface of a workpiece, mirror finishing or the like is possible without making the surface of the workpiece pearskin-like. | 01-13-2011 |
20110256393 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION AND PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET - A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including: a (meth)acrylate copolymer (A) obtained by copolymerizing a (meth)acrylate and a reactive group-containing monomer, such that a ratio of the reactive group-containing monomer (constituent unit derived from the monomer) in the copolymer ranges from 0.01 to 15 wt %; a polyrotaxane (B) having at least two cyclic molecules and a linear-chain molecule passing through opening portions of the cyclic molecules wherein the cyclic molecules have each one or more reactive groups and the linear-chain molecule has blocking groups at both ends thereof; and a crosslinking agent (C) having a reactive group capable of reacting with the reactive group of the (meth)acrylate copolymer (A) and with the reactive group of the polyrotaxane (B). | 10-20-2011 |
20110262746 | PRESSURE-SENSITIVE ADHESIVE SHEET - A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet including: a base material; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that comprises a polyrotaxane (A) having at least two cyclic molecules and a linear-chain molecule passing through opening portions of the cyclic molecules wherein the cyclic molecules have each one or more reactive groups and the linear-chain molecule has blocking groups at both ends thereof, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has an elongation at break of not smaller than 300% and a haze value of not greater than 30%, and a holding power of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet according to JIS Z0237, but at a measurement temperature of 80° C., is not greater than 1000 μm as the displacement of the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet after 70,000 seconds. | 10-27-2011 |