Abstract: An utterance test method for an utterance device, an utterance test server, an utterance test system, and a program perform an utterance test on a test device (20). The utterance test system includes at least one utterance device (20) capable of uttering, a terminal device (30), and an utterance test server (10). The utterance test server (10) receives an utterance test start command from the terminal device (30), sets at least one utterance device (20) to be a test device (20) as a target of an utterance test, sets test content of the utterance test, and causes the test device (20) to utter the test content.

Abstract: A control method includes obtaining an information item on operation of a first device from the first device, determining a priority level for the obtained information item according to the content or attribute of the obtained information item, storing the obtained information item in a memory unit in association with the determined priority level, and preferentially transmitting an information item associated with a higher priority level among information items stored in the memory unit to a second device to cause the second device to output the information item associated with the higher priority level by sound, the information items having been obtained in the obtaining.

Abstract: A medical device packaging container includes a tray, a sheet-like lid portion having an annular flange portion, and an annular heat seal portion. The annular heat seal portion includes a first-side seal portion, a second-side seal portion, a third-side seal portion, and a fourth-side seal portion. The first-side seal portion includes a central seal portion, a first side-part seal portion, and a second side-part seal portion. The central seal portion includes central seal extension portions, the first side-part seal portion includes a first side-part seal extension portion, and the second side-part seal portion includes a second side-part seal extension portion.

Abstract: A voice speech device includes: a display; a selector that causes the display to display one or more candidates for a name to be provided to a target appliance (appliance), and accepts selection of one name among the one or more candidates; a receiver for receiving first state information that is sent from the target appliance and indicates a state of the target appliance; a speech sentence creator that creates a speech sentence for notifying the state of the target appliance, based on the first state information received by the receiver, the speech sentence containing the one name accepted by the selector; and a voice outputter that outputs the speech sentence by voice.

Abstract: A voice control method according to the present disclosure includes: judging, for each of a plurality of utterance objects capable of outputting voice, whether the utterance object is outputting voice; and based on a result of the judging, causing one or more of the plurality of utterance objects to output voice at one of a timing of immediately outputting voice and a timing of outputting voice after an end of outputting voice by an utterance object which is outputting voice among the plurality of utterance objects.

Abstract: Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Abstract: Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Abstract: Program information is transmitted and received via a communication line, and a scheduling operation can be performed based on the program information via the communication line. For that purpose, a communication system includes a receiving apparatus, a server, and an information processing apparatus which are configured to transmit data to and receive data from one another via the communication line. The information processing apparatus includes an EPG requester and a display EPG receiver. The server includes an EPG request receiver, an EPG request transmitter, an EPG receiver, an EPG converter, and a display EPG transmitter. The receiving apparatus includes an EPG obtainer, an EPG request acceptor, an EPG extractor, and an EPG transmitter.

Abstract: An service association system including, an “association template” in which service association details are described is prepared in advance; an actual service adaptable to a template instructed by a user is extracted; a specific association operation description is generated by adapting the actual service instructed by the user to the template; and the service is operated in association. As the result, it becomes possible to construct a service association system in which different services can be automatically adapted to the template in addition to the service which simply adapted to the template.

Abstract: In the service association system according to the present invention, an “association template” in which service association details are described is prepared in advance; an actual service adaptable to a template instructed by a user is extracted; a specific association operation description is generated by adapting the actual service instructed by the user to the template; and the service is operated in association. As the result, it becomes possible to construct a service association system in which different services can be automatically adapted to the template in addition to the service which simply adapted to the template.

Abstract: A semiconductive polyvinylidene fluoride resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a polyvinylidene fluoride resin, 0.03 to 10 parts by weight of at least one tetraalkylammonium salt selected from the group consisting of tetraalkylammonium sulfates and tetraalkylammonium sulfites, and 1 to 20 parts by weight of conductive carbon black. A formed or molded product composed of the semiconductive polyvinylidene fluoride resin composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to polyvinylidene fluoride resin compositions comprising 100 parts by weight of a polyvinylidene fluoride resin, and 0.03 to 10 parts by weight of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of alkyl quaternary ammonium sulfates and alkyl quaternary ammonium sulfites.

Abstract: A moistureproof film composed of a transparent multi-layer film having a layer structure that thin metal or nonmetal oxide layers (C) are respectively arranged directly or through an adhesive layer (B) on both sides of a hygroscopic resin layer (A), and having a water vapor transmission rate of at most 0.05 g/m2·24 hr as measured at a temperature of 60° C. and a relative humidity of 90%, and a quantity of water vapor transmission for 50 hours of at most 0.15 g/m2 as measured at a temperature of 40° C. and a relative humidity of 100%, a production process thereof, an EL device sealed with the moistureproof film, and a fabrication process of the EL device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a transfer material-carrying member formed from a resin composition comprising at least two resins selected from the group consisting of (A) a polyester resin containing a predominant repeating unit composed of ethylene terephthalate and having a reduced viscosity of at least 0.9 dl/g, (B) a polyamide resin, and (C) a polycarbonate resin, wherein the compositional proportions by mass % of the respective resins are included within a range of a pentagon having points (98, 2, 0), (85, 15, 0), (65, 15, 20), (72, 0, 28) and (90, 0, 10) as vertexes when represented by a triangular coordinate indicated in the above order (A, B, C). The member has excellent mechanical fatigue endurance, tensile elongation at break, mechanical endurance, stiffness and the like and a high specific dielectric constant and makes it possible to lower voltage required upon repeated charging and discharging.

Abstract: A transfer sheet comprising not less that 75% by mass of a polycarbonate resin, and having a ratio of an infrared absorbency at a wave-number of 155 mm.sup.-1 to that at a wave-number of 160 mm.sup.-1 of not less than 0.02 and less than 0.3, a melting viscosity of not less than 2,500 Pa.multidot.s when measured at 280.degree. C. by a Koka-type flow tester and thickness of 130 to 250 .mu.m. The transfer sheet can satisfy requirements of a mechanical durability, flame retardant properties and a modability simultaneously.

Abstract: The disclosure describes dielectrics for a transfer sheet carrying member used in electrophotographic image forming apparatus, comprising 80 to 96 mass % of a vinylidene fluoride-based resin and 4 to 20 mass % of a methyl methacrylate-based resin.

Abstract: A transfer sheet for printing media of electrophotographic copying machines or printers comprises a polycarbonate-based resin or a composition containing not less than 75% by mass of a polycarbonate-based resin, and having characteristics that:the ratio of infrared absorbance at the wave number of 155 mm.sup.-1 to that at 160 mm.sup.-1 of said sheet is 0.3 to 0.6;the melt viscosity at the shear rate of 200/sec at 280.degree. C. of said sheet is not less than 2,000 Pa.multidot.s; andthe thickness of said sheet is 130 to 250 .mu.m.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing biaxially stretched polyparaphenylene sulfide film including the steps of melt-molding a polyparaphenylene sulfide resin into a sheet-form or film-form, rapidly chilling the thus molded sheet or film thereby obtaining an amorphous and non-stretched sheet or film, subjecting the amorphous and non-stretched sheet or film to thermal treatment for from 0.5 to 20 sec at a temperature of from 150.degree. to 300.degree. C., cooling the thus treated film or sheet to room temperature and subjecting the thus cooled film or sheet to biaxial stretching at a temperature of from 80.degree. to 120.degree. C.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a biaxially stretched polyparaphenylene sulfide film having protuberances on the surface of the film in number of not less than 10.sup.2 /mm.sup.2 of the surface thereof, an average diameter of the bottom part of the protuberances being from 5 to 40 .mu.m and an average height of the protuberances being from 0.3 to 2 .mu.m, and process for producing the same.