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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182949 | Polymer electrolyte membrane and process for preparation thereof, and membrane-electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell A polymer electrolyte membrane comprising as a main ingredient a block copolymer (P) which comprises, as its constituents, a vinyl alcoholic polymer block (A) and a polymer block (B) having ion-conducting groups, which block copolymer (P) is cross-linking treated, a... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8178184 | Process for producing intertwined ultrafine filament sheet A method of producing an entangled sheet of microfine long fibers using long fibers for forming microfine fibers. The method includes a step of forming a long-fiber web made of long fibers for forming microfine fibers, at least one component of the long fibers being... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173832 | Process for producing 2-isopropenyl-5-methyl-4-hexene-1-yl-3-methyl-2-butenoate Provided is a method capable of solving the problems associated with production of LVSA, which is a pheromone produced by female pest mealybugs, and is useful as an agrochemical pest, at an industrial large scale, and producing LVSA in a high yield. Specifically, th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8163844 | Methacrylic resin composition, resin modifier, and molded article A methacrylic resin composition in which a star block copolymer (B) in the form of particles is dispersed in a matrix (A) composed of a methacrylic resin comprising not less than 50% by mass of a methyl methacrylate unit. The methacrylic resin composition is obtaine... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163212 | Process for producing pellet of ethylene/vinyl alcohol copolymer The present invention provides a process for producing pellet of EVOH comprising the steps of introducing an EVOH solution containing alcohol into an apparatus, contacting the solution with water in the apparatus to let out the alcohol with water and then letting ou... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159632 | Surface light source element and image display apparatus including the same An object of the present invention is to provide a surface light source element configured to enhance projection light from an opening boundary of a supporting frame (12), wherein the projection light is required as a surface light source element, so that the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158226 | Paper container Provided is a paper container having a window and being formed of a laminate that includes at least a paper layer and a gas barrier laminate, the paper layer having a cutout part for the window, the cutout part being covered with the gas barrier laminate, and the ga... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158077 | Composition for detection and model for evaluation of food packaging material using the same The present invention provides a composition for detecting an object substance (X). This detection composition contains a gel (Y). The gel (Y) contains a colorable aqueous solution (A) that can be colored upon contact with the object substance (X), and a crosslinked... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8153036 | Thermoplastic polymer powder A process for producing a thermoplastic polymer powder that is made by subjecting an acrylic triblock copolymer (B)(A)(B) to an underwater cutting process to obtain a thermoplastic polymer powder, wherein block (A) has structural units originating from an acrylic es... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152950 | Multi-layer circuit board and method of making the same A method of making a multi-layer circuit board that has a first film and at least two more films, second and third films, each being made of a thermoplastic polymer capable of forming an optically anisotropic melt phase, the first film having a low melting point, th... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144397 | Laminated sheet and display screen A laminated sheet for a display screen. The laminated sheet includes a multilayer sheet A including two or more layers with different linear expansion coefficients. The laminated sheet further includes a single sheet B which is a sheet other than the multilayer shee... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8138246 | Polymer electrolyte, electrochemical device, and actuator element A polymer electrolyte which comprises an ionic liquid (A) and a block copolymer (B) as essential ingredients, which block copolymer (B) comprises one or more of polymer block(s) (P) being compatible with (A) and one or more of polymer block(s) (Q) being incompatible... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137860 | Polymer electrolyte membrane for solid polymer fuel cell, membrane-electrode assembly and fuel cell This invention relates to a polymer electrolyte membrane for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, comprising a block copolymer which comprises, as its constituents, a polymer block (A) having as a main unit an aromatic vinyl compound unit whose α-carbon is quaternary ca... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137775 | Blow molded container and method for producing the same A blow molded container made of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition, wherein the composition contains 0.1 to 20 μmol/g, in terms of alkali metal, of an alkali metal salt (A), 0 to 2 μmol/g of a carboxylate radical (C1) which is extracted through ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133570 | Sheet material excelling in cushion and nonslip properties The present invention provides a sheet material exhibiting an appearance excellent in three dimensional feel in combination with sufficient abrasion strength of the surface, cushioning property and non-slipping property and advantageously used as the surface materia... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8129030 | Acrylic block copolymer composition and molded article thereof [PROBLEMS] To provide a polymer composition that simultaneously has excellent paintability and high oil resistance and is also excellent in thin-wall moldability and flexibility; and a molded article produced by injection-molding of the composition and being suitabl... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8119749 | Method of taking (meth)acrylic ester polymer out of liquid reaction mixture The present invention relates to a method of obtaining a (meth)acrylate-based polymer from a reaction solution containing the (meth)acrylate-based polymer, the method including (a) adding an acid to the reaction solution containing the (meth)acrylate-based polymer w... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8110629 | Flame-retardant composition A flame-retardant composition includes: a powdery acid-modified hydrogenated block copolymer (a) having a bulk density of 0.1 to 0.4 g/ml and which is a hydrogenated block copolymer modified by addition of an unsaturated carboxylic acid or a derivative thereof, the ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110124 | Method of preparing fluorescent body precursor To produce fluorescent bodies providing high brightness and high energy efficiency, a method of preparing a fluorescent body precursor is provided to enable an activator having a large ionic radius to be doped arbitrarily. The problems described above are solved by ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105746 | Tertiary alcohol derivative, polymer compound and photoresist composition (1) A polymer compound for photoresist composition which is high in dissolution rate in a developing solution after exposure and small swelling at the development and (2) a compound which is a raw material for such a polymer compound are provided. Furthermore, (3) a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105060 | Impact target capsule and impact compression apparatus A target capsule includes (A) a pedestal having a central projection, (B) a pedestal aid attached to the central projection so as to define a sample-loading assembly, and (C) an impact-receiving member, wherein the components (A), (B), and (C) are detachable from ea... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101546 | Thermal recording material In the present invention, a dispersion that has excellent dispersion efficiency, shows hardly any premature graying, and exhibits excellent dispersion stability and storage stability when heated is prepared, and the thermal recording material excellent in color deve... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097366 | Alkaline battery separator comprising alkali-resistance synthetic fiber, fibrillated organic solvent-spun cellulose fiber and mercerized pulp, and alkaline primary battery An alkaline battery separator including 25 to 62% by mass of an alkali-resistance synthetic fiber, 5 to 25% by mass of a fibrillated organic solvent-spun cellulose fiber having a Canadian standard freeness value of 10 to 280 ml, and 33 to 50% by mass of a mercerized... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8092324 | Sheet-like object for ball and ball Provided are: a sheet-like ball material including a fibrous base material, and an elastic polymer cover layer that is laminated on a surface of the fibrous base material, in which continuous pebbles and discontinuous valleys are formed on a surface of the cover lay... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8088353 | Group II metal sulfide phosphor precursor and method for producing phosphor A process for producing a Group II metal sulfide phosphor precursor, comprising adding to an organic solvent an aqueous solution containing at least one of a Group II element compound, a sulfurizing agent, and a compound containing any of copper, silver, manganese, ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8084536 | Resin composition and film made of same A resin composition is provided which comprises from 50 to 95% by weight of a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (C) obtained by reacting an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) with a monovalent epoxy compound (B) having a molecular weight of 500 or less, an... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8076433 | Vinyl alcohol-based polymer and film containing the same Provided are a polyoxyalkylene modified vinyl alcohol-based polymer, including a polyoxyalkylene group in side chain, wherein the vinyl alcohol-based polymer has a viscosity average degree of polymerization P of from 200 to 5000, has a degree of saponification of fr... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8071672 | Lens sheet, process for producing the same, and resin composition for transfer material To provide a lenticular lens sheet having a fine light shielding pattern that has high color reproducibility. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The above problem can be solved by a lenticular lens sheet, in which the average primary particle diameter of carbon black cont... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8053060 | Base material for artificial leathers and method of producing the same A substrate for artificial leathers which is composed of a nonwoven fabric made of fiber bundles of microfine fibers having an average single fiber fineness of 0.5 dtex or less and an elastic polymer impregnated into the nonwoven fabric. The substrate for artificial... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8048362 | Polyolefin-based resin composition and use thereof A polyolefin-based resin composition of the invention has an addition polymerization-based block copolymer (I) and a polyolefin-based resin (II). The addition polymerization-based block copolymer (I) is selected from block copolymers comprising at least one polymer ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044149 | Process for production of hydrogenated polymers and hydrogenated polymers Provision of, in a process of producing a hydrogenated polymer, which comprises steps of sequentially performing, in the presence of a ruthenium carbene complex, a ring-opening metathesis polymerization reaction of a cyclic olefin and a hydrogenation reaction of a r... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8039645 | Method for continuously producing 2,5-dihydrofuran The method of the invention for continuously producing 2,5-dihydrofuran includes subjecting cis-2-butene-1,4-diol to liquid-phase dehydration-cyclization reaction in the presence of alumina, characterized in that the sum of the concentration of carbonyl compounds pr... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8039555 | Thermoplastic resin composition and floor tile made of the same The invention provides a thermoplastic resin composition including a thermoplastic resin component (I) in an amount of 100 parts by mass, and a filler (II) in an amount of 1 to 900 parts by mass, wherein the thermoplastic resin component (I) contains a block copolym... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8039071 | Gas barrier layered product and packaging medium, and method for producing gas barrier layered product Provided is a gas barrier layered product including a base material and a layer stacked on at least one surface of the base material, wherein the layer is formed of a composition including: a hydrolyzed and condensed product of at least one compound (L) containing a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8030230 | Flame-retardant leather-like sheet and process for producing the same The present invention relates to a flame-retardant leather-like sheet having a soft hand, excellent surface touch and excellent appearance, which includes an entangled nonwoven fabric of microfine polyester fibers having an average single-fiber fineness of 0.5 dtex ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022139 | Polylactic acid composition A polylactic acid composition comprising (A) a polylactic acid-series resin and (B) an acrylic triblock copolymer is prepared. The composition fulfills the following requirements: (1) the acrylic triblock copolymer (B) is a triblock polymer comprising (B1) a polymer... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013075 | Curable composition A curable composition includes (A) a (meth)acrylate, (B) a radical polymerization initiator, (C) an epoxidized polyisoprene containing an epoxy group at 0.15 to 2.5 meq/g in the molecule and having a number-average molecular weight of 15000 to 200000, and (D) a curi... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8012628 | Polymer electrochemical device This invention relates to an electrochemical device which comprises a molding containing as a main ingredient a copolymer (Z) and at least two mutually insulated electrodes in joint with the molding, wherein the copolymer (Z) comprises a polymer block (A) having as ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8007890 | Article in a sheet form and method for preparation thereof The sheet material produced in accordance with the invention has soft and enriched texture like natural leather and is suitable as any type of artificial leather for shoes, clothes, gloves and the like, particularly for sports gloves. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7985473 | Resinous-substance-impregnated planar paper and adhesive tape using the same Provided is a planar paper for an adhesive tape, and an adhesive tape utilizing such planar paper as a backing, which has an elongation sufficient to allow the adhesive tape to be favorably adhered to an adherend surface without being accompanied by any lift and sep... | 07/26/2011 |
