Abstract: Efficient production of high quality oxidized fiber bundles and carbon fiber bundles is described, comprising a step for heat-treating aligned acryl based fiber bundles in an oxidizing atmosphere while turning them back on guide rollers installed on both ends outside the furnace body of a hot gas heating type oxidation furnace wherein: supply nozzles for supplying hot gas into a heat treatment chamber are installed at an end in the traveling direction of the acryl based fiber bundles; a fiber bundle traveling passage(s) exists above and/or below each nozzle; hot gas is supplied from the supply face(s) located above and/or below the acryl based fiber bundle; and the requirements (1) and (2) are satisfied where Vf and V are defined as described. 1.5 m/s?Vf?15 m/s ??(1) 1.

Abstract: A spinneret includes: a plate including a plurality of nozzle holes formed therein. In the plates, the plurality of nozzle holes are formed in a substantially rectangular area on a principal surface, the rectangular area includes a non-forming zone that intersects with nozzle hole rows, the non-forming zone continuously extending from one long side of the rectangle to the other long side, and the non-forming zone including no nozzle holes, in nozzle hole rows with which the non-forming zone intersects out of the nozzle hole rows, in each of the nozzle hole rows, the nozzle hole is not formed on a part where the non-forming zone intersects with a position of the regular interval at which the nozzle holes are aligned, and the nozzle hole corresponding to number of the unformed nozzle holes is additionally formed in a short side direction of the nozzle hole row.

Abstract: A method of producing an oxidized fiber bundle includes heat-treating an acrylic fiber bundle aligned in a heat treatment chamber in which hot air is circulated while causing the acrylic fiber bundle to run on direction-changing rollers disposed on both ends of an outside of the heat treatment chamber, wherein first hot air is supplied in a direction substantially parallel to a running direction of the acrylic fiber bundle, and second hot air is supplied from above the acrylic fiber bundle at an angle of 20 to 160° with respect to a wind direction of the first hot air, so that the second hot air passes at least a part of a running acrylic fiber bundle in a longitudinal direction.

Abstract: There is provided an oxidation heat treatment oven including a heat treatment chamber configured to heat-treat a fiber bundle that is an aligned acrylic fiber bundle in an oxidizing atmosphere to form an oxidized fiber bundle; a slit-shaped opening configured to take the fiber bundle in and out of the heat treatment chamber; guide rollers installed at both ends of the heat treatment chamber and configured to turn the fiber bundle back; a hot air supply nozzle that has a longitudinal axis along the width of the fiber bundle traveling and that blows out hot air, in a direction substantially parallel to a traveling direction of the fiber bundle, above and/or below the fiber bundle traveling in the heat treatment chamber; and a suction nozzle configured to suck the hot air blown out from the hot air supply nozzle, in which the hot air supply nozzle satisfies disclosed conditions (1) to (3).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stabilized fiber bundle is described, which includes subjecting an acrylic fiber bundle aligned, to a heat treatment in an oxidizing atmosphere, with the acrylic fiber bundle being turned around by a guide roller placed on each of both ends outside a hot air heating-type oxidation oven, wherein an air velocity Vm of first hot air sent through a supply nozzle(s) disposed above and/or under a fiber bundle travelled in the oxidation oven, in a substantially horizontal direction to a travelling direction of the fiber bundle, and an air velocity Vf of second hot air flowing in a fiber bundle passing a flow channel in which the fiber bundle is travelled that satisfies expression 1) 0.2?Vf/Vm?2.0 ??1) to produce a high-quality stabilized fiber bundle and a high-quality carbon fiber bundle at high efficiencies without any process troubles.

Abstract: A spinneret includes: a plate including a plurality of nozzle holes formed therein. In the plates, the plurality of nozzle holes are formed in a substantially rectangular area on a principal surface, the rectangular area includes a non-forming zone that intersects with nozzle hole rows, the non-forming zone continuously extending from one long side of the rectangle to the other long side, and the non-forming zone including no nozzle holes, in nozzle hole rows with which the non-forming zone intersects out of the nozzle hole rows, in each of the nozzle hole rows, the nozzle hole is not formed on a part where the non-forming zone intersects with a position of the regular interval at which the nozzle holes are aligned, and the nozzle hole corresponding to number of the unformed nozzle holes is additionally formed in a short side direction of the nozzle hole row.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modified natural rubber that offers higher efficiency of graft polymerization or attachment of a polar group-containing compounds, and that possesses excellent low loss factor, wear resistance and fracture resistance when used as a rubber composition, a rubber composition using the modified natural rubber and a tire using the rubber composition. In the present invention, a polar group-containing compound is graft polymerized or attached under mechanical shear force to a natural rubber raw material having a nitrogen content of 0.4 mass % or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a modified natural rubber that offers higher efficiency of graft polymerization or attachment of a polar group-containing compounds, and that possesses excellent low loss factor, wear resistance and fracture resistance when used as a rubber composition, a rubber composition using the modified natural rubber and a tire using the rubber composition. In the present invention, a polar group-containing compound is graft polymerized or attached under mechanical shear force to a natural rubber raw material having a nitrogen content of 0.4 mass % or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a video display device provided with a storage mechanism that reliably holds a recording medium (HDD) with the reduced number of components. A tray integrally stores an installed HDD built in the device and a cassette HDD attachable to and detachable from the device, and is mounted on a main chassis. An HDD stopper of a hook-like shape integrated with the tray presses an end part of the installed HDD to secure its storage position. An HDD holder integrated with the tray presses a side surface at an end part of the cassette HDD to prevent it from falling off the tray. Further, a regulating plate formed by cutting and raising the main chassis suppresses deformation of the HDD stopper, and an anti-falling plate prevents the installed HDD from falling off the tray.

Abstract: The present invention provides a simply usable shield cover capable of enhancing the mechanical strength of a set even if a display device is decreased in thickness. In a video display apparatus including a base chassis on a front surface of which a displaying member is arranged and on a back surface of which a unit for driving and controlling the display device is arranged, and a plurality of frames arranged on the back surface of the base chassis in parallel with each other, a shield cover is attached to the plurality of frames to extend over those to form a crosslink structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multiple-optical-axis photoelectric sensor in which an error in detection of an object caused by disturbance light is prevented easily and efficiently by adjusting a light projection/reception cycle in accordance with a state where mutual interference is recognized. In the invention, by detecting a range in which mutual interference occurs, that is, the position in which disturbance light is detected, which is either a first-half period or a latter-half period of a whole light projecting/receiving operation period, whether the phase is advanced or delayed is determined. For a period according to the position of the optical axis in which incidence of disturbance light is recognized or the number of optical axes in which incidence of disturbance light is recognized continuously, a scheduled next sync timing is changed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multiple-optical-axis photoelectric sensor in which an error in detection of an object caused by disturbance light is prevented easily and efficiently by adjusting a light projection/reception cycle in accordance with a state where mutual interference is recognized. In the invention, by detecting a range in which mutual interference occurs, that is, the position in which disturbance light is detected, which is either a first-half period or a latter-half period of a whole light projecting/receiving operation period, whether the phase is advanced or delayed is determined. For a period according to the position of the optical axis in which incidence of disturbance light is recognized or the number of optical axes in which incidence of disturbance light is recognized continuously, a scheduled next sync timing is changed.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a recycle guarantee method, a server applicable to the method, a recycle guarantee program, a computer-readable recording medium for the recycle guarantee program, a method of selling recycle-guaranteed products, recycle-guaranteed products, and recycle guarantee account. The recycle guarantee method is carried out by a server which receives recycling conditions of materials composing a product, stores the received recycle guarantee conditions together with a recycle guarantee information identifier, stores a guarantee code of the product in correlation to the recycle guarantee information identifier, searches the recycle guarantee conditions in response to the guarantee code, and outputs the recycle guarantee conditions. The invention is effective in enabling consumers to select and utilize products at their wills and to actively participate in the recycling.

Abstract: A high voltage MOSFET device (100) has an nwell region (113) with a p-top layer (108) of opposite conductivity formed to enhance device characteristics. The p-top layer is implanted through a thin gate oxide, and is being diffused into the silicon later in the process using the source/drain anneal process. There is no field oxide grown on the top of the extended drain region, except two islands of field oxide close to the source and drain diffusion regions. This eliminates any possibility of p-top to be consumed by the field oxide, and allows to have a shallow p-top with very controlled and predictable p-top for achieving low on-resistance with maintaining desired breakdown voltage.

Abstract: A high voltage MOSFET device (100) has an nwell region (113) with a p-top layer (108) of opposite conductivity formed to enhance device characteristics. The p-top layer is implanted through a thin gate oxide, and is being diffused into the silicon later in the process using the source/drain anneal process. There is no field oxide grown on the top of the extended drain region, except two islands of field oxide close to the source and drain diffusion regions. This eliminates any possibility of p-top to be consumed by the field oxide, and allows to have a shallow p-top with very controlled and predictable p-top for achieving low on-resistance with maintaining desired breakdown voltage.

Abstract: A high voltage MOSFET device (100) has a well region (113) with two areas. The first area (110) has a high dopant concentration and the second area (112) has a low dopant concentration. Inside the well region a region of a secondary conductivity type (108) is formed. The second area (110) is typically underlying a gate region (105). The lower doping concentration in that area helps to increase the breakdown voltage when the semiconductor device is blocking voltage and helps to decrease the on-resistance when the semiconductor device is in the “on” state. The MOSFET device further has a p-top layer (108) which is disposed on the top surface of the well region and then driven into the well region by annealing the MOSFET device at a high temperature in an inert atmosphere.

Abstract: The present invention relates to child protecting clothes for vehicles, used with a seat belt so as to protect a child sitting on a seat of an automobile from a shock of an accident. As compared with a related art child seat, the child protecting clothes have the following advantages. The protective clothes can be put on a child as the safety of the child is secured; manufactured at a low cost; and give the person wearing the clothes a certain degree of freedom of physical movement. A back member 10B of the protective clothes is formed double of an inner cloth portion 10B1 and an outer cloth portion 10B2. A seatbelt C can be inserted between the inner and outer cloth portions 10B1, 10B2 of the back member.

Abstract: A novel prostaglandin I.sub.2 derivative selected from a prostaglandin I.sub.2 having a halogen atom on the carbon atom corresponding to the 7-position of natural prostaglandin I.sub.2 and having a cycloalkylene group in the .alpha.-chain, and its esters and salts.

Abstract: A swash plate compressor especially suited for automotive vehicles. The inner housing may be moved in the rear housing in the front and rear direction, as the occasion may demand, for adjusting the compression capacity or performance of the compressor. A partition wall is projectingly projected at the front side of the inner housing for defining an inner or discharge chamber and an outer or suction chamber. A plurality of clamp bolts for fixedly clamping together a rear cylinder block and the rear housing are passed through said suction chamber. The rear wall of the inner housing is formed with an annular thin-walled portion lesser in thickness than the valve plate on the front surface of said inner housing. By the function of said thin-walled portion, the inner housing may be flexed readily to absorb valve plate strain.

Abstract: A swash plate type compressor, having a swash plate fixedly and slantingly secured to a drive shaft and also secured to pistons in such a manner that the pistons reciprocate as the swash plate rotates, has piston webs which have a sliding outer surface and a relief inner surface. A clearance exists between a circumferential surface of the swash plate and the relief surface which creates a wedge effect which, in turn, produces a lubricating film pressure that substantially reduces wear between the circumferential surface of the swash plate and the sliding surface.