Abstract: A multi-layer polyester container comprising inner and outer layers of a polyester resin and at least one intermediate layer of a functional resin or a functional resin composition, wherein a difference of tan ? of the inner polyester layer at 80° C. and 60° C. is 0.035 or less in the measurement of the dynamic viscoelasticity (DMS) thereof at 0.5 Hz. Even when the functional resin or the functional resin composition having a large draw stress is used as an intermediate layer, therefore, excellent transparency is obtained while effectively exhibiting the function such as barrier property possessed by the functional resin or the functional resin composition.

Abstract: A pressure-resistant polyester container having a multilayer structure comprising inner and outer layers of a polyester resin and at least one intermediate layer of a functional resin, wherein in the container body portion, the inner layer of the polyester resin has a crystallinity of not less than 23%, the outer layer thereof has a crystallinity of not less than 18%, the average value of the crystallinity of the inner layer and the crystallinity of the outer layer is not less than 24%. The pressure-resistant polyester container effectively prevents whitening even after the passage of time and features excellent transparency despite of using, as an intermediate layer, a functional resin composition obtained by blending a functional resin with a clay. The invention, further, provides a process for producing the same.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a polyethylene container which enables a non-oily viscous content such as ketchup or the like to favorably run down when the container is inverted. [Means for Solution] A polyethylene container having at least a polyethylene resin layer on the inner surface thereof, wherein the polyethylene resin layer on the inner surface of the container contains an aliphatic amide in an amount of not less than 500 ppm but less than 4000 ppm.

Abstract: A preform, a method of producing the preform, and a container obtained by draw-forming the preform. The preform has at least a layer of a polyester resin and is formed by the compression-forming, wherein the time is not shorter than 300 seconds before a calorific value of isothermal crystallization of the layer of the polyester resin at 210° C. reaches a maximum value. The preform is provided suppressing the thermal decomposition of the resin at the time of forming the preform, and effectively suppressing a drop in the inherent viscosity and the formation of the acetaldehyde. Further, a biaxially drawn container is provided having excellent mechanical strength and flavor-retaining property.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a decoding method and a decoder, a program, a recording-and-reproducing apparatus and a method, and a reproducing apparatus and a method that are suitable for decoding encoded data encoded by using a linear code on ring R. A low-density processing unit performs parity-check-matrix low-density processing, performs linear combination for rows of a parity check matrix included in an obtained reception word, and generates a parity check matrix according to the linear-combination result, thereby reducing the density of the parity check matrix used for decoding, at step S21. Then, at step S22, an LDPC decoding unit performs decoding by using a sum product algorithm (SPA) by using the parity check matrix whose density is reduced through the processing performed at step S21. Where the processing at step S22 is finished, the LDPC decoding unit finishes decoding for the reception word. The present invention can be used for an error-correction system.

Abstract: A stretch-formed container having a layer comprising a blend of an ethylene terephthalate type polyester resin and another material, characterized in that the layer comprising the blend has a dispersion structure composed of a continuous phase comprising the ethylene terephthalate type polyester resin and a dispersed phase comprising the other material and that at least the container body part has a tan ? maximum temperature of 115° C. or lower in a dynamic viscoelasticity examination. Due to the constitution, even when the mechanical stretching rate reaches a limit, strain hardening effectively occurs. Thus, a stretch-formed container of a polyester resin can be provided which has both of excellent heat resistance attributable to high-temperature stretching and a stretch balance attributable to strain hardening.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for encoding data into linear codes on a ring R, including: as many shift registers as the length of information input thereto, the shift registers having a plurality of memory elements; a shift adding unit for adding values which are cyclically input depending on a check matrix for the linear codes, from the shift registers; a storage unit for storing parity values of the linear codes; and an accumulative adding unit for adding a sum from the shift adding unit and the parity values of the linear codes stored in the storage unit to each other to determine new parity values of the linear codes, and supplying the new parity values to the storage unit.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using a wiring substrate is provided which can facilitate the handling of the wiring substrate. The method includes the steps of forming a peelable resin layer on a silicon substrate, forming the wiring substrate on the peelable resin layer, mounting semiconductor chips on the wiring substrate, forming semiconductor devices by sealing the plurality of semiconductor chips by a sealing resin, individualizing the semiconductor devices by dicing the semiconductor devices from the sealing resin side but leaving the silicon substrate, peeling each of the individualized semiconductor devices from the silicon substrate between the silicon substrate and the peelable resin layer, and exposing terminals on the wiring substrate by forming openings through the peelable resin layer or by removing the peelable resin layer.

Abstract: Provided is a fan motor apparatus. The fan motor apparatus includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a blade. The stator includes a rotor supporting mechanism, a supporting member, and a vibration insulation member. The rotor supporting mechanism rotatably supports the rotor. The supporting member supports the rotor supporting mechanism. The vibration insulation member is provided between the rotor supporting mechanism and the supporting member. The stator is capable of regulating relative movement of the rotor supporting mechanism and the supporting member.

Abstract: An optical pick-up unit includes an optical pick-up for recording reproducing data to and from the optical disc, the optical pick-up being provided on a base frame so that the optical pick-up can move in a predetermined radial direction of the loaded optical disc; a stepping motor provided on the base frame; a lead screw rotated by the stepping motor and provided in parallel with the moving direction of the optical pick-up; first and second guide rods arranged on the base frame in parallel with the lead screw through a predetermined spacing there between for guiding an optical pick-up base of the optical pick-up in the moving direction of the pick-up; a rack spring having one end which is fixedly mounted on the pick-up base by a screw and the other end which is provided with an engaging portion which is in engagement with a groove of the lead screw so as to move the pick-up base in the moving direction of the pick-up in accordance with the rotation of the lead screw; and an abutment portion provided on the pi

Abstract: A multi-layer structure for packaging formed by at least an inner layer, an outer layer and an intermediate layer, the intermediate layer having an islands-in-a-sea structure comprising a resin A constituting sea portions and a functional resin B constituting island portions, the sea portions occupying not more than 80% of the area of the intermediate layer in cross section, and the inner layer and the outer layer being resins having adhesiveness to said resin A. The adhesion among the layers is improved without providing any particular adhesive layers among the intermediate layer having a function such as gas barrier property and the inner and outer layers, and, besides, transparency is improved.

Abstract: A polyester resin for compression molding comprising chiefly ethylene terephthalate units and having an inherent viscosity in a range of 0.6 to 1.3 dL/g, containing a diethylene glycol in an amount of smaller than 2.3 mol %, and containing a monohydroxyethyl terephthalate and a bishydroxyethyl terephthalate in a total amount of not larger than 0.005% by weight. A mass of a molten resin which is the polyester resin can be fed to a compression-molding apparatus maintaining stability for extended periods of time, featuring excellent properties for being conveyed and for enhancing the productivity.

Abstract: A signal processing device and method for performing a code string transform by transforming a time series signal with a frequency band from 0 to 20 kHz from a coding system into another, wherein the arithmetic operations of MDCT and IMDCT with a limited frequency band from 0 to 15 kHz are carried out at high speed by performing computations using an FFT operation with a short tap length in the IMDCT processing operation. This allows a reduced work area and a higher speed for arithmetic operations by reducing the number of multiplications and additions when performing MDCT operations, IMDCT operation and/or transforming code strings between different coding system.

Abstract: A preform having at least a layer of a polyester resin, formed by the compression forming and having a neck ring at the mouth portion, wherein a temperature difference ?Tc at the center of the bottom of the polyester layer or under the neck ring represented by the following formula (1), ?Tc=Tc2?Tc1 ??(1) wherein Tc1 is a temperature-elevating peak crystallization temperature of the polyester layer cut out from the preform as measured by using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), and Tc2 is a temperature-elevating peak crystallization temperature of the polyester layer measured by quickly cooling it after having measured Tc1 and having melted it, is not larger than 15° C. The preform has a small forming distortion and features excellent dimensional stability at the time of crystallizing the mouth portion. The article formed by draw blow-forming the preform of the invention is without irregularity in the thickness, without scars or wrinkles, and distored little, exhibits excellent appearance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a decoding method and a decoding apparatus in which, while the circuit scale is suppressed, the operating frequency can be suppressed within a sufficiently feasible range, and control of memory access can be performed easily, and to a program therefor. By using a transformation check matrix obtained by performing one of or both a row permutation and a column permutation on an original check matrix of LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) codes, the LDPC codes are decoded. In this case, by using, as a formation matrix, a P×P unit matrix, a quasi-unit matrix in which one or more 1s, which are elements of the unit matrix, are substituted with 0, a shift matrix in which the unit matrix or the quasi-unit matrix is cyclically shifted, a sum matrix, which is the sum of two or more of the unit matrix, the quasi-unit matrix, and the shift matrix, and a P×P 0-matrix, the transformation check matrix is represented by a combination of a plurality of the formation matrices.

Abstract: Preparing a bottom grounding layer eliminates grounding pins, thereby the number of signal pins can be increased in a multilayer board that includes a grounding layer, a signal layer, a power supply layer, a grounding via, a signal via, a power supply via and the like in the insulation material of the multilayer board, the bottom grounding layer being electrically connected to the grounding layer.

Abstract: A multi-layer structure comprising a functional resin layer obtained by covering a core layer of a base body resin or a second functional resin with a shell layer of a first functional resin, and a base body resin layer containing the functional resin layer therein. The layers of the functional resins are formed at positions where they are allowed to exhibit their functions to a sufficient degree, a plurality of functions can be imparted, and a molten resin mass having the above multi-layer structure can be formed by the compression-forming.

Abstract: A polyester resin suitably used for forming preforms by compression forming, the polyester resin having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.70 to 1.00 dL/g and, a molecular weight distribution (Mz/Mn) of not smaller than 3.0, and a diethylene glycol content of not larger than 2.3 mol %. The polyester resin is effectively prevented from depositing on conveyer means of the synthetic resin feeding device, the timing of falling the molten resin mass onto the compression forming mold is not deviated and, besides, the resin can be extruded in an increased amount from the extruder without accompanied by an excess increase in the torque of the extruder. Therefore, the preforms can be formed by compression forming maintaining good productivity. Besides, since the resin has a high degree of fluidity, the preforms that are the formed articles are free of wrinkles, shade or forming distortion, featuring good formability.

Abstract: A packing container having oxygen absorbing layers comprising a base material resin component (component A) and an oxygen absorbing functional component (component B), the oxygen absorbing layers having an islands-in-the-sea structure in which the base material resin component (component A) is forming a sea portion and the oxygen absorbing functional component (component B) is forming island portions, wherein the ratio (N/M). of the whole surface area (N cm2) of the island portions of the oxygen absorbing functional component (component B) in the oxygen absorbing layers to the volume (M cm3) of the packing container is not smaller than 20 (cm?1). The packing container exhibits excellent gas barrier property and oxygen absorbing property from the beginning of filling the content and continuously works to lower the initial concentration of oxygen in the content from the beginning of filling.

Abstract: A multi-layer structure for packaging formed by at least an inner layer, an outer layer and an intermediate layer, the intermediate layer having an islands-in-a-sea structure comprising a resin A constituting sea portions and a functional resin B constituting island portions, the sea portions occupying not more than 80% of the area of the intermediate layer in cross section, and the inner layer and the outer layer being resins having adhesiveness to said resin A. The adhesion among the layers is improved without providing any particular adhesive layers among the intermediate layer having a function such as gas barrier property and the inner and outer layers, and, besides, transparency is improved.