Abstract: A neck pillow comprising a cylindrical body that can encircle a neck of a human body, wherein the neck pillow is wearable around and detachable from the neck, wherein the cylindrical body has hardness for stably supporting the neck of the wearer and is provided with a fastener that is openable and closable on a front side of a wearer, and wherein degree of opening of the fastener can be adjusted by a millimeter unit from an upper edge of the cylindrical body in accordance with a height of the lower jaw of the wearer.

Abstract: The present invention aims at solving a problem of providing a cushion body that, when mounted by a person, is capable of changing into various shapes along an outer contour of the person or in accordance with the person's wishes.

Abstract: A neck pillow comprising a cylindrical body that can encircle a neck of a human body, wherein the neck pillow is wearable around and detachable from the neck, wherein the cylindrical body has hardness for stably supporting the neck of the wearer and is provided with a fastener that is openable and closable on a front side of a wearer, and wherein degree of opening of the fastener can be adjusted by a millimeter unit from an upper edge of the cylindrical body in accordance with a height of the lower jaw of the wearer.

Abstract: A body trunk supporter provided with: a belt-like lower band section that is adapted to be wrapped around and positioned at the pelvis of a user; an X-shaped stretchable middle band section that has a pair of lower end parts joined to the lower band section and that presses areas of the lumbar region of the user; and a pair of upper band sections that are jointed to a pair of upper end parts of the middle band section and that are adapted to be wrapped around and positioned at the chest of the user, wherein the pair of lower end parts of the middle band section are configured to be joined to areas ranging from positions that are immediately lateral to the pelvis of the user to adjacent anterior positions thereof in the lower band section; and the pair of upper band sections are configured to be separated from each other and to extend in bilaterally opposite directions in an unfolded state, and are configured to be wrapped around and positioned near fifth to tenth ribs of the chest of the user.

Abstract: A support band provided with a band body which has an intermediate strip part and hook-and-loop fastener parts connected to both ends in a longitudinal direction of the intermediate strip part, wherein the hook-and-loop fastener parts each have a hook-shaped fiber surface part provided on one surface thereof and a loop-shaped fiber surface part that is provided on the other surface opposite to the one surface and is capable of bonding to the hook-shaped fiber surface part by surface contact, each of the hook-shaped fiber surface parts and the loop-shaped fiber surface parts is continuously or intermittently provided so as to extend from one end part to the other end part in a longitudinal direction of each of the hook-and-loop fastener parts, and the band body has a total length allowing the band body to be helically wrapped around a user from the lower abdomen, past the lower back, toward the chest.

Abstract: A body trunk supporter provided with: a belt-like lower band section that is adapted to be wrapped around and positioned at the pelvis of a user; an X-shaped stretchable middle band section that has a pair of lower end parts joined to the lower band section and that presses areas of the lumbar region of the user; and a pair of upper band sections that are jointed to a pair of upper end parts of the middle band section and that are adapted to be wrapped around and positioned at the chest of the user, wherein the pair of lower end parts of the middle band section are configured to be joined to areas ranging from positions that are immediately lateral to the pelvis of the user to adjacent anterior positions thereof in the lower band section; and the pair of upper band sections are configured to be separated from each other and to extend in bilaterally opposite directions in an unfolded state, and are configured to be wrapped around and positioned near fifth to tenth ribs of the chest of the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a supporting tool for a portable information terminal that can freely and easily adjust a tilt angle. The supporting tool for a portable information terminal includes a deformable bag body having particulate fillers enclosed in a bag; and an adhesion member mounted to the bag body so as to be capable of being adhesive to the portable information terminal, wherein the supporting tool is configured to be capable of supporting the portable information terminal at various tilt angles with the bag body in a state in which the portable information terminal is directly adhesive to the adhesion member.

Abstract: A digital video signal record and playback device for recording on a recording medium a digital video signal coded by using a motion compensation prediction and an orthogonal transform and playing back data from the recording medium. In a data arrangement of a digital video signal, an I picture which can be independently represented in a picture is divided into n areas in the vertical direction, and the data is arranged from the front of one GOP in the unit of area by giving a priority to an area located at the center of the screen. A playback picture is outputted by playing back the I picture read from the recording medium in the unit of area unit. In the case where the whole I picture area cannot be read within a definite time, the area which cannot be read are interpolated by the use of the data of the preceding screen.

Abstract: A digital video signal record and playback device for recording on a recording medium a digital video signal coded by using a motion compensation prediction and an orthogonal transform and playing back data from the recording medium. In a data arrangement of a digital video signal, an I picture which can be independently represented in a picture is divided into n areas in the vertical direction, and the data is arranged from the front of one GOP in the unit of area by giving a priority to an area located at the center of the screen. A playback picture is outputted by playing back the I picture read from the recording medium in the unit of area unit. In the case where the whole I picture area cannot be read within a definite time, the area which cannot be read are interpolated by the use of the data of the preceding screen.

Abstract: A faintly aromatic cushioning body comprising: a mixture of expanded resin beads and aroma-containing beads, the expanded resin beads having a solvent of 400 ppm or less and an average particle diameter of 0.4 to 1.4 mm, wherein the mixture of expanded resin beads and aroma-containing beads is used as a filler into a bag.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for making a cushion including a preliminary foaming device for heating and foaming raw material beads, an upward stream passage for upwardly moving, by hot air, foaming particles which are output from the preliminary foaming device, a maturing silo for storing the foaming particles received from the upward stream passage, a relay hopper which is connected to a lower portion of the maturing silo for receiving the foaming particles, and an outputting section which is in communication with the relay hopper and which can freely open and close a passage of the relay hopper. The invention makes it possible to realize an apparatus capable of efficiently making cushions and the like.

Abstract: A cushioning body and expanded resin beads for filling in cushioning body capable of solving such a problem that, when the cushioning bodies such as a bed, a mattress, a pillow, a cushion etc. are used for performing a cushioning function, noise is generated each time the cushioning bodies are moved to provide uncomfortable feeling to users or awake the users while asleep, wherein expanded resin beads with a specified average particle size containing a specified amount of fluidization accelerator are used as the filler for the cushioning body.

Abstract: A new elastic product comprises expanded particles having an average diameter of 0.1 to 1.0 mm and a bag which is made of a two-way tricot fabric 0.3 to 1.5 mm in thickness and in which the particles are packed, wherein a rectangular test specimen of the tricot fabric having a size of 16 cm in the warp direction and a size of 2.5 cm in the fill direction shows an extension percentage of 250 to 300% when a tension of 1 kilogram-force is applied to the test specimen in the warp direction. The bag of the new elastic product has increased stretchability, which permits large deformation, and the inner filling material has increased fluidity so that an odd sound can be prevented when the product is deformed.

Abstract: A digital video signal record and playback device for recording on a recording medium a digital video signal coded by using a motion compensation prediction and an orthogonal transform and playing back data from the recording medium. In a data arrangement of a digital video signal, an I picture which can be independently represented in a picture is divided into n areas in the vertical direction, and the data is arranged from the front of one GOP in the unit of area by giving a priority to an area located at the center of the screen. A playback picture is outputted by playing back the I picture read from the recording medium in the unit of area unit. In the case where the whole I picture area cannot be read within a definite time, the area which cannot be read are interpolated by the use of the data of the preceding screen.

Abstract: A disk cartridge having a case including a first planar protion and a second planar portion which are disposed opposite to each other with a given spacing therebetween, and a plurality of walls which join the first planar portion and the second planar portion together. The case contains an information carrying disk in a rotatable manner and has an opening formed in one of the walls through which the disk can be inserted or removed. The disk cartridge has a lid mounted on the case for opening or closing the opening. The lid is formed so that an outer surface of the lid is located inside an outer surface of the wall in which the opening is formed.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical disk medium having a recording spiral formed by connecting groove tracks and land tracks alternately, and permitting detection of a connecting point between a groove track and a land track reliably is provided, and a method of tracking the optical disk medium and an optical disk drive apparatus for driving the optical disk medium. One part of an identification signal area is shifted by a predetermined distance in one radial direction from the center of a groove, while another part of the identification signal area is shifted by the same distance in the opposite radial direction from the center of the groove. A land/groove polarity of a sector is determined by the polarity of a tracking error signal and the order of the polarities during reproduction of an identification signal.

Abstract: A digital video signal record and playback device for recording on a recording medium a digital video signal coded by using a motion compensation prediction and an orthogonal transform and playing back data from the recording medium. In a data arrangement of a digital video signal, an I picture which can be independently represented in a picture is divided into n areas in the vertical direction, and the data is arranged from the front of one GOP in the unit of area by giving a priority to an area located at the center of the screen. A playback picture is outputted by playing back the I picture read from the recording medium in the unit of area unit. In the case where the whole I picture area cannot be read within a definite time, the area which cannot be read are interpolated by the use of the data of the preceding screen.