Abstract: A kneading apparatus for a thermoplastic resin, includes: a plasticizing cylinder which has a high pressure kneading zone and a pressure reduction zone; a screw in the plasticizing cylinder; a downstream side seal mechanism which shuts off communication between the high pressure kneading zone and the pressure reduction zone; and a pressure reduction zone pressure adjusting mechanism which is connected to the pressure reduction zone and which controls a pressure of the pressure reduction zone so that the pressure is not less than an atmospheric pressure and the pressure is not more than a maximum pressure of the high pressure kneading zone that is achieved when kneading a molten resin with a pressurized fluid, when the downstream side seal mechanism shuts off the communication between the high pressure kneading zone and the pressure reduction zone.

Abstract: A kneading apparatus for a thermoplastic resin, includes: a plasticizing cylinder which has a high pressure kneading zone and a pressure reduction zone; a screw in the plasticizing cylinder; a downstream side seal mechanism which shuts off communication between the high pressure kneading zone and the pressure reduction zone; and a pressure reduction zone pressure adjusting mechanism which is connected to the pressure reduction zone and which controls a pressure of the pressure reduction zone so that the pressure is not less than an atmospheric pressure and the pressure is not more than a maximum pressure of the high pressure kneading zone that is achieved when kneading a molten resin with a pressurized fluid, when the downstream side seal mechanism shuts off the communication between the high pressure kneading zone and the pressure reduction zone.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a molded article, which can be perform the continuous processes and effectively impregnate a modifying material such as metal complexes in the thermoplastic resin for short period of time. The above object is achieved by providing the method of producing the thermoplastic resin molded article which includes impregnating the pressurized fluid having a modifying material dissolved therein, in thermoplastic resin; discharging the pressurized fluid from the thermoplastic resin in which the modifying material has been impregnated; and continuously molding the thermoplastic resin, in which the modifying material has been impregnated and from which the pressurized fluid has been discharged, into the form of a film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum fluorescent display driving apparatus and a vacuum fluorescent display driving method that may prevent generation of excessive load on power lines employed in driving, without causing an increase in size of the apparatus. The vacuum fluorescent display driving apparatus of the present invention includes, a grid driver that applies a driving voltage to plural grid electrodes respectively provided in the vacuum fluorescent display, and a grid driver limiting section that performs limitation on the number of grid electrodes to which voltage is applied simultaneously by the grid driver, to less than a predetermined first threshold value.

Abstract: When a plurality of display panel drivers is set to a state in conformity to given specifications, setting data indicative of details of the setting is stored in a memory. One of the display panel drivers supplies a first signal indicating that the setting data is in a readout condition to the memory and other display panel drivers. In response to the first signal, the memory reads and provides the setting data on the first line. The one display panel driver fetches the setting data on the first line to perform the setting based on the setting data. The other display panel drivers fetch the setting data from the first line in response to the first signal to perform the setting based on the setting data.

Abstract: A display panel driver that can take in pixel data without wasteful electric power consumption even if the number of output terminals of the display panel driver is greater than the number of source lines of the display panel, and a driving method thereof. The display panel driver has latches individually, respectively hold pixel data pieces, each of which is for a pixel, based on an input video signal according to information stored in a setting register and applies drive pulses corresponding to the pixel data pieces held in the latches to the source lines of the display panel.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a molded product of which surface is modified by a functional material using a molding machine such as a general-purpose injection molding machine or extrusion molding machine. The method for producing the molded product includes: mixing a block copolymer having a hydrophilic segment with the functional material; mixing the block copolymer, which has been mixed with the functional material, with a thermoplastic resin; and molding the thermoplastic resin in which the functional material and the block copolymer are mixed.

Abstract: A kneading apparatus for a thermoplastic resin, includes: a plasticizing cylinder which has a high pressure kneading zone and a pressure reduction zone; a screw in the plasticizing cylinder; a downstream side seal mechanism which shuts off communication between the high pressure kneading zone and the pressure reduction zone; and a pressure reduction zone pressure adjusting mechanism which is connected to the pressure reduction zone and which controls a pressure of the pressure reduction zone so that the pressure is not less than an atmospheric pressure and the pressure is not more than a maximum pressure of the high pressure kneading zone that is achieved when kneading a molten resin with a pressurized fluid, when the downstream side seal mechanism shuts off the communication between the high pressure kneading zone and the pressure reduction zone.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a molded article which enables dissolution of a desired amount of a subject material in a molten resin without any limitation by the solubility of a high-pressure carbon dioxide in the molten resin and which is therefore suitable for commercial production of molded articles. The present invention pertains to a method for producing a molded article by molding a molten resin, and this method is characterized by including steps of supplying a high-pressure carbon dioxide and a subject material dissolved therein, into the molten resin; kneading the molten resin into which the high-pressure carbon dioxide and the subject material have been supplied; and exhausting the high-pressure carbon dioxide from the kneaded molten resin.

Abstract: A storage container is provided, which includes carbon dioxide containing a functional material and a container body in which carbon dioxide has been hermetically contained. Accordingly, a method for molding a resin, a method for forming a plating film, and the storage container for carbon dioxide, which are excellent in the mass productively at low cost, are provided without using any special high pressure apparatus for producing a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: A data transfer system which can surely transfer data between two function circuits which operate synchronously with different clock frequencies. A data loading signal is generated just before timing when edges of two clocks of different frequencies coincide. Only information data received by the function circuit on a transfer data reception side within an existence period of the data loading signal is determined to be valid.

Abstract: A storage container is provided, which includes carbon dioxide containing a functional material and a container body in which carbon dioxide has been hermetically contained. Accordingly, a method for molding a resin, a method for forming a plating film, and the storage container for carbon dioxide, which are excellent in the mass productively at low cost, are provided without using any special high pressure apparatus for producing a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: The present invention provides an injection molding method capable of impregnating a supercritical fluid stably and partially in molten resin in a plasticizing cylinder of an injection molding apparatus. The above object is achieved by providing the method of injection molding which includes measuring a filling amount of the molten resin in the plasticizing cylinder, introducing a supercritical fluid into the molten resin in the plasticizing cylinder while moving back the screw by a predetermined distance without rotating the screw from a position of the screw at the time of completing the measuring, detecting a pressure of the molten resin, and determining based on the pressure an injection start position for the screw.

Abstract: A storage container is provided, which includes carbon dioxide containing a functional material and a container body in which carbon dioxide has been hermetically contained. Accordingly, a method for molding a resin, a method for forming a plating film, and the storage container for carbon dioxide, which are excellent in the mass productively at low cost, are provided without using any special high pressure apparatus for producing a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: To provide a production method for producing a polymer member in which a pressurized fluid containing a modifying material is introduced more easily and stably into a molten resin in an injection molding machine. This task is solved by providing a production method, for producing a polymer member by using an injection molding machine provided with a mold and a heating cylinder, the method including: introducing, into a molten resin in a heating cylinder, a pressurized fluid containing a modifying material, liquid carbon dioxide, and a liquid in which the modifying material is dissolvable while controlling a flow rate of the pressurized fluid by a cylinder; and injecting the molten resin, into which the pressurized fluid is introduced, into the mold to form the polymer member in which the modifying material is contained in a surface of the polymer member.

Abstract: A storage container is provided, which includes carbon dioxide containing a functional material and a container body in which carbon dioxide has been hermetically contained. Accordingly, a method for molding a resin, a method for forming a plating film, and the storage container for carbon dioxide, which are excellent in the mass productively at low cost, are provided without using any special high pressure apparatus for producing a supercritical fluid.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing a resin molded article by using a resin into which fine metal particles are so introduced as to be hardly dissolved at the melting temperature of the resin and as to obtain high solubility in a high-pressure carbon dioxide. This process comprises the steps of forming a high-pressure fluid by dissolving, in a high-pressure carbon dioxide, a fluorine-containing metal complex and a fluorine-based solution capable of dissolving the same metal complex; introducing the high-pressure fluid into a heated and molten resin; and molding the resin having the high-pressure fluid introduced thereinto, to shape the molded article.

Abstract: The present invention provides a vacuum fluorescent display driving apparatus and a vacuum fluorescent display driving method that may prevent generation of excessive load on power lines employed in driving, without causing an increase in size of the apparatus. The vacuum fluorescent display driving apparatus of the present invention includes, a grid driver that applies a driving voltage to plural grid electrodes respectively provided in the vacuum fluorescent display, and a grid driver limiting section that performs limitation on the number of grid electrodes to which voltage is applied simultaneously by the grid driver, to less than a predetermined first threshold value.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a molded article which enables dissolution of a desired amount of a subject material in a molten resin without any limitation by the solubility of a high-pressure carbon dioxide in the molten resin and which is therefore suitable for commercial production of molded articles. The present invention pertains to a method for producing a molded article by molding a molten resin, and this method is characterized by including steps of supplying a high-pressure carbon dioxide and a subject material dissolved therein, into the molten resin; kneading the molten resin into which the high-pressure carbon dioxide and the subject material have been supplied; and exhausting the high-pressure carbon dioxide from the kneaded molten resin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for allowing a metal complex to stably penetrate into a polymer and immobilizing the metal complex in the polymer by a low temperature treatment, in a batch processing for a plating pre-treatment wherein the metal complex is allowed to penetrate into the polymer with the use of high-pressure carbon dioxide. In particular, the present invention provides a method for producing a composite material containing a resin molded product, characterized in that a reducing agent is brought into contact with the resin molded product so as to allow the reducing agent to penetrate into the resin molded product, and in that high-pressure carbon dioxide having an organic metal complex dissolved therein is brought into contact with the resin molded product into which said reducing agent has penetrated, so as to immobilize the organic metal complex in the resin molded product by the reducing agent.