Abstract: A perfluoropolyether-polyorganosiloxane copolymer comprising at least one perfluoropolyether block, at least one polyorganosiloxane block which may has a silalkylene group, and two monovalent groups represented by the following formula (1), each one at both ends of the copolymer, wherein X is a hydrolyzable group, R1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, y is an integer of from 1 to 5, and a is an integer of 2 or 3, said copolymer having a number average molecular weight, reduced to polystyrene, of from 7,000 to 25,000.

Abstract: The present invention is an industrial robot with a cable spanned between and end effector and an upper arm. The cable does not twine around the upper arm or interfere with a peripheral device. A passage opening, through which the cable for supplying power, signals, or materials to an end effector attached to a rotating element is drawn out of a body, is opened at a position where the body intersects the center of a first rotational axis.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a keyboard portion, a first antenna module, and a connection portion. The keyboard portion includes a base plate to support a plurality of key portions, and a reinforcing member having an electric conductivity to be stacked on and reinforce the base plate. The first antenna module includes an antenna electrode to generate an induced electric field, and a ground portion to electrically connect to the antenna electrode. The connection portion is electrically connected to the ground portion and the reinforcing member.

Abstract: A disclosed current source circuit includes a current mirror circuit having two enhancement-type MOS transistors, a depletion-type MOS transistor configured to be connected to a drain of one of the two enhancement-type MOS transistors and to function as a constant current source, and a resistor configured to have a negative temperature property and be connected to a source of the one of the two enhancement-type MOS transistors.

Abstract: A powder coating composition of the present invention includes, as essential components, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (A) with a glass transition temperature of 40° C. or higher, an epoxy group-containing vinyl copolymer (B) that contains organosiloxane side chains and has a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or lower, and a polyvalent carboxylic acid (C), and is able to form a coating film with excellent external appearance and scratch resistance.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer composition, which yields a coating having excellent adhesior to a substrate, good water- and oil-repellency, a low dynamic friction coefficient, good releasing property, good abrasion resistance and good stain resistance, and to provide a surface treatment agent comprising the same. The present inventors have found that a composition comprising a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer having a fluorinated group and a hydrolyzable group at each terminal and a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer having hydrolyzable groups at both terminals can form a coating which has excellent water- and oil-repellency, a low dynamic friction coefficient, good releasing property, good abrasion resistance, and good stain resistance.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising (A) at least one fluorine-containing organosilicon compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2) Rf1-QZ1A? (1) A?Z1Q-Rf2-(Q-Z2-Q-Rf2)x-QZ1A? (2) and (B) a fluorine-containing carboxylic acid having a number average molecular weight of from 100 to 10,000 and a fluorine content of at least 25 wt %, wherein an amount of (B) ranges from 0.001 to 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the component (A) wherein the amount of (B) ranges from 0.001 to 10 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the component (A), wherein the composition can be cured rapidly even at room temperature to produce water-repellent and antifouling coatings.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial robot, wherein a cable or the like spanned between an end effector and an upper arm has less bending due to a motion of a wrist portion, wherein the cable or the like does not twine around the upper arm, and wherein the cable or the like does not interfere with a peripheral device. A passage opening 25, through which a cable or the like 12 for supplying power, signals or materials to an end effector 9 attached to a rotating element 7 is drawn out of a body 6, is opened at a position, at which the body 6 intersects with a center of a first axis (an R-axis). The cable or the like 12 drawn out of the passage opening 25 is extended to the end effector 9.

Abstract: A perfluoropolyether-polyorganosiloxane block copolymer represented by the following formula (1), the block copolymer having a number average molecular weight, reduced to polystyrene, of from 2,000 to 20,000, W2-Q-Rf-Q-(W1-Q-Rf-Q)g-W2??(1) wherein Rf is a perfluoropolyether block, W1 is a polyorganosiloxane block having at least one group represented by the following formula (2) wherein X is a hydrolyzable group, R1 is a C1-4 alkyl group or a phenyl group, y is an integer of from 1 to 5, and a is 2 or 3, Q is a C2-12 divalent connecting group which may contain an oxygen atom and/or nitrogen atom, W2 is an organosiloxane residue having a group represented by the aforesaid formula (1), and g is an integer of from 1 to 11.

Abstract: The present invention provides an industrial robot, wherein a cable or the like spanned between an end effector and an upper arm has less bending due to a motion of a wrist portion, wherein the cable or the like does not twine around the upper arm, and wherein the cable or the like does not interfere with a peripheral device. A passage opening 25, through which a cable or the like 12 for supplying power, signals or materials to an end effector 9 attached to a rotating element 7 is drawn out of a body 6, is opened at a position, at which the body 6 intersects with a center of a first axis (an R-axis). The cable or the like 12 drawn out of the passage opening 25 is extended to the end effector 9.

Abstract: An organopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (A), (B) or(C) SinR12n+2On?1??(A) SinR12nOn??(B) SinR12n+2R2kOn?k??(C) wherein R1 may be the same with or different from each other and is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, R2 is an alkylene group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, n is an integer of from 2 to 40 and k is an integer of 1 to 3, characterized in that at least two R1's are represented by the following formula (i): wherein X is a hydrolyzable group, R3 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, y is an integer of from 1 to 5 and a is 2 or 3; and one SiOSi bond is replaced with a bond represented by the following formula (iii): SiQRf2QSi??(iii) wherein Rf1 is a monovalent group containing a perfluoroether residue, Rf2 is a divalent group containing a perfluoroether residue, and Q is a divalent organic group.

Abstract: A charging control circuit for a secondary battery includes a temperature detection terminal for detecting the temperature of a secondary battery from an input detected voltage; a temperature comparison part having four threshold voltages corresponding to four reference temperatures, the temperature comparison part being configured to compare the four threshold voltages with the detected voltage input to the temperature detection terminal and to output a temperature range signal indicating the temperature range of the detected voltage; and a control part configured to control a charging current and/or a charging voltage based on the temperature range signal output from the temperature comparison part.

Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a housing and an output device configured to output sound. The output device is disposed on a surface on an inside of a slope disposed on a lower surface of the housing, the slope resulting in the housing being opened in a predetermined direction. The slope forms a space between the slope and a mounting surface on which the housing is placed. The surface on the inside of the slope includes a curved surface. The curved surface may be concavely curved relative to the bottom surface of the housing. The electronic apparatus may also include an input device, and the output device may be disposed on a side forward of the input device.

Abstract: A non-contact reader/writer for an IC card includes an antenna substrate provided with a loop antenna and a capacitor on its upper surface, a control substrate provided with a transmitting/receiving circuit and a chip coil on its upper surface, and a magnetic sheet disposed between the antenna substrate and the control substrate. A magnetic flux generated by the chip coil on the control substrate passes through the loop antenna to cause magnetic coupling, so that the loop antenna and the transmitting/receiving circuit need not be connected to each other through a communication cable.

Abstract: A perfluoropolyether-modified polysilazane is provided. The polysilazane consists of units having formula (1): F(CxF2xO)mCyF2y-Q-Si(NH)1.5 ??(1) wherein Q represents a divalent organic group, m represents an integer of 1 or greater, and x and y each represents an integer of 1 to 3. The polysilazane can be cured at normal temperatures, forms a tough coating on a substrate surface without application of a primer, and is useful as a surface treatment agent that is capable of maintaining water and oil repellency and releasability and the like, over a long period of time.

Abstract: A decision feedback equalizer is provided for correcting ISI on a first postcursor without using received decision data of a preceding bit. The decision feedback equalizer includes an amplifying circuit that is to be supplied with received data, a duobinary signal decision device for determining an output signal from the amplifying circuit, the duobinary signal decision device including a flip-flop, a shift register for successively shifting a decision result held by the flip-flop, and a plurality of current control blocks that are to be supplied with respective output signals from the shift register, and feeding back output signals to an output terminal of the amplifier to control the potential thereof.

Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a housing and an output device configured to output sound. The output device is disposed on a surface on an inside of a slope disposed on a lower surface of the housing, the slope resulting in the housing being opened in a predetermined direction. The slope forms a space between the slope and a mounting surface on which the housing is placed. The surface on the inside of the slope includes a curved surface. The curved surface may be concavely curved relative to the bottom surface of the housing. The electronic apparatus may also include an input device, and the output device may be disposed on a side forward of the input device.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing organopolysiloxane represented by the following average compositional formula (1) (Z2Q)?Rf(QZ1A?)2????(1) wherein Rf is a divalent group containing a perfluoroether residue, Q is a divalent organic group, Z1 is a di- to nona-valent organopolysiloxane residue and may contain a silalkylene bond, ? is an integer of from 1 to 8, ? is a number larger than 0 and smaller than 2, Z2 is a monovalent group represented by the following formula (2) wherein b is an integer of from 1 to 10, R1 may be the same with and different from each other and is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, and A is a monovalent group represented by the following formula (3) wherein R2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, X is a hydrolyzable group, a is 2 or 3, and c is an integer of from 1 to 6.

Abstract: A portable electronic apparatus includes a housing and an output device configured to output sound. The output device is disposed on a surface on an inside of a slope disposed on a lower surface of the housing, the slope resulting in the housing being opened in a predetermined direction. The slope forms a space between the slope and a mounting surface on which the housing is placed. The surface on the inside of the slope includes a curved surface. The curved surface may be concavely curved relative to the bottom surface of the housing. The electronic apparatus may also include an input device, and the output device may be disposed on a side forward of the input device.

Abstract: A disclosed semiconductor device includes a first power terminal to which a high voltage is applied; a clamping circuit electrically connected to the first power terminal; and an internal circuit electrically connected to the clamping circuit and driven by a voltage lower than the high voltage. The clamping circuit includes a bipolar transistor. The emitter of the bipolar transistor is electrically connected to the first power terminal. The collector of the bipolar transistor is grounded. The base of the bipolar transistor is electrically connected to the collector of the bipolar transistor.