Abstract: A bloomed fiber material (bloomed tow) is manufactured through a process including: spreading a crimped tow in its width direction by a preliminary blooming device; performing primary blooming to bloom the tow by a primary blooming device; dividing the tow into at least two divided tows by a dividing device; cutting a parting between the divided tows by a cutting device; and performing secondary blooming to bloom the divided tows by a secondary blooming device.

Abstract: A bloomed fiber material (bloomed tow) is manufactured through a process including: spreading a crimped tow in its width direction by a preliminary blooming device; performing primary blooming to bloom the tow by a primary blooming device; dividing the tow into at least two divided tows by a dividing device; cutting a parting between the divided tows by a cutting device; and performing secondary blooming to bloom the divided tows by a secondary blooming device.

Abstract: A cigarette filter comprises a cellulose ester tow and a cellulose acetate particle dispersed in the cellulose ester tow, and the cellulose acetate particle has the following particle size: not less than 90% by weight of the cellulose acetate particle pass through a sieve having an aperture size of 1.7 mm and fail to pass through a sieve having an aperture size of 0.10 mm, and these sieves are in accordance with JIS Z8801-1 2006.

Abstract: [Means for Solution] A preliminary opening unit 1, an opening unit 2 and a swelling/shaping unit 3 are connected so as to form a communicated space for delivering a fiber tow 10 continuously. A fiber tow 10 is contacted with a particulate additive in a nozzle 32 of the opening unit (2), is opened in an opening zones Z1 and Z2, is swollen and shaped in the swelling/shaping unit 3 for obtaining a long-sized opening matter in which the fiber tow opening matter and the particulate additive are integrated.

Abstract: [Means for Solution] A preliminary opening unit 1, an opening unit 2 and a swelling/shaping unit 3 are connected so as to form a communicated space for delivering a fiber tow 10 continuously. A fiber tow 10 is contacted with a particulate additive in a nozzle 32 of the opening unit (2), is opened in an opening zones Z1 and Z2, is swollen and shaped in the swelling/shaping unit 3 for obtaining a long-sized opening matter in which the fiber tow opening matter and the particulate additive are integrated.

Abstract: A Web server includes a storage unit that stores transaction relation information, transaction data requirement information that determines whether a reference authority is appended to a user for transaction data, and information that identifies the user, associated with each other; and a control unit that controls to receive the transaction data containing the transaction relation information, refer to the storage unit, extract user identification information for appending information indicating the transaction relation and the reference authority from the storage unit, when the storage unit stores the received transaction relation information and the received transaction data satisfies the transaction data requirement, and register the extracted information and information for identifying the transaction data in the database, from the user terminal, therefore, separate third parties can refer to every transaction data, even to the transaction data transmitted and received between the same transaction relati

Abstract: A cigarette filter comprises a cellulose ester tow and a cellulose acetate particle dispersed in the cellulose ester tow, and the cellulose acetate particle has the following particle size: not less than 90% by weight of the cellulose acetate particle pass through a sieve having an aperture size of 1.7 mm and fail to pass through a sieve having an aperture size of 0.10 mm, and these sieves are in accordance with JIS Z8801-1 2006.

Abstract: A process includes, in performing a process of electronic commerce executed by a user terminal of a party A, generating an output screen with a display setting content of the output screen corresponding to the relevant process, receiving a change instruction for the display setting content from the user terminal displaying the output screen, updating the display setting content related to the output screen in accordance with the change instruction, and storing identification information of the party A and the output screen in the first database in an associated manner, and, in performing a process of electronic commerce executed by a user terminal of one of the party A and a party B in transactional relationship with the party A, setting the transactional data into the output screen in accordance with the identified display setting content with a display setting content of an output screen that corresponds to the process and that is associated with the identification information of the party A, and sending it

Abstract: A circuit simulation method and apparatus for simulating the operation of semiconductor devices, including field effect transistors (FETs), on the basis of the mask layout pattern of each semiconductor device. A circuit simulation method is performed by a computer which includes a first step of determining an equivalent circuit of the semiconductor device from the mask layout patterns, and a second step of producing a signal indicative of the operation of the equivalent circuit determined by the first step. The equivalent circuit is determined by extracting resistive area patterns of the FETs and calculating resistance values of FET signal paths to obtain FET equivalent resistances. The resistive area patterns are divided into a series of rectangles which are converted to equivalent resistive elements to then be arranged so that an equivalent resistive value can be calculated.