Abstract: There is provided a multilayer hollow container having a laminar structure including a PGA resin and a co-laminated resin, such as an aromatic polyester resin, that takes advantage of the gas-barrier property of the PGA resin layer to the utmost and is suitable for bottles of a small volume required to exhibit a higher level of gas-barrier property. The multilayer hollow container has a co-stretched multilayer wall structure including a layer of a polyglycolic acid resin comprising at least 60 wt. % of recurring unit represented by a formula of —(O.CH2.CO)— . . . (1), and a layer of co-laminated resin comprising an aromatic polyester resin or an aliphatic polyester resin other than polyglycolic acid resin laminated on at least one surface of the polyglycolic acid resin layer, and satisfying a formula of: T×w/v?0.8×10?3 . . . (2), wherein T represents an oxygen gas permeability (ml/container/day/atm), v represents a volume (ml) of the container, and w represents a content (wt.

Abstract: In order to carry out relatively accurate AF control while eliminating the adverse effect on a reproduced moving picture, a subject is imaged every 1/30 seconds, so that subject images are obtained. Image data representing the subject images respectively corresponding to odd-numbered frames are recorded on a memory card as image data representing the moving picture. At timing where the subject images respectively corresponding to even-numbered frames are obtained by the imaging, auxiliary light is irradiated onto the subject. A high-frequency component is extracted from the image data representing each of the subject images respectively corresponding to even-numbered frames, so that focusing data representing the degree of focusing of the subject image is obtained. Since the subject image used for focusing control is bright, focusing control can be carried out relatively accurately.

Abstract: An occupant determination device for a vehicle seat includes a load sensor provided at a seat body, a controller for calculating a detection load value based on a load value output from the load sensor and for determining an occupant sitting on the vehicle seat by comparing the detection load value and a predetermined threshold value, a determining means for determining whether or not a child restraint system is equipped on the vehicle seat based on a variation of the detection load value and a detecting means for detecting whether or not the vehicle is stopped. When a vehicle stop condition is not detected by the detecting means, the determining means does not determine whether or not the child restraint system is equipped on the seat.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersion usable for forming an electroconductive layer having an extremely fine pattern and a high thickness/minimum width ratio in the cross-section, and which has a high fluidity enabling application of inkjet to draw a fine pattern at high accuracy and contains only metal nanoparticles as a conductive medium. According to the present invention, a metal nanoparticle dispersion suitable to multiple layered coating by jetting in the form of fine droplets is prepared by dispersing metal nanoparticles having an average particle size of 1 to 100 nm in a dispersion solvent having a boiling point of 80° C. or higher in such a manner that the volume percentage of the dispersion solvent is selected in the range of 55 to 80% by volume and the fluid viscosity (20° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for simply and easily producing fine metal particles or fine metal oxide particles in the form of a dry powder which can be used as extremely fine particles in a good dispersion state without causing coagulation for a long time even if not stored in a dispersion solvent.

Abstract: A method of preparing substrates, including the steps of depositing metal particulates into a pillar form at a prescribed position of a substrate (1) by the use of a fine inkjet method, and then sintering the resultant to form a metal pillar (2).

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for forming a copper fine particle sintered product type of a fine-shaped electric conductor showing superior electroconductivity, which comprises steps of drawing a fine pattern with the use of a dispersion containing the copper fine particles having a surface oxide film layer, conducting a treatment for reducing the copper fine particles with the surface oxide film layer or copper oxide fine particles included in the pattern at a comparatively low temperature, and baking the resultant copper fine particles. Specifically, the process carries out the processes of; applying a dispersion containing the copper fine particles having the surface oxide film layer thereon or the copper oxide fine particles with an average particle diameter of 10 ?m or smaller onto a substrate; and then performing a series of the heat treatment steps of heating the particles in the coated layer at temperature of 350° C.

Abstract: Address information of target data is stored in an ELA register at the start of a cache excluding process performed by BackEviction, and a request processing unit continuously re-executes a data acquiring process while an address of data requested to be acquired by a processor is present in the ELA register. The address information of the target data is stored in an EWB buffer at the start of autonomous move-out performed by a processor, and the cache excluding process performed by BackEviction is stopped when the address of data subjected to BackEviction is present in the EWB buffer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive adhesive agent capable of being diluted with a solvent to give good coating workability and allowing formation of a conductive joint excellent in both thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity by inhibiting a gas generated when a binder resin is heat-cured after attachment of a part. The conductive adhesive agent according to the present invention is a conductive adhesive agent wherein, based on 100 parts by weight of silver powder having an average particle diameter of micrometers, which is used for a conductive medium, e.g.

Abstract: A cache-status maintaining unit stores address information of data stored in each entry of a cache memory, and maintains a status of each entry as any one of “strongly modified”, “weakly modified”, “shared”, and “Invalid”. A data-fetching-procedure selecting unit selects, upon receiving a data read request, at least one data fetching procedure based on the address information and the status. A read-data delivering unit selects latest data from among the data fetched, and delivers the latest data to a processor that issued the data read request. A cache-status updating unit updates, when registering the address information of the data, updates the status of the entry based on a type of the data read request.

Abstract: A crystalline aliphatic polyester alone or a laminate thereof is subjected to intense stretching under appropriately set stretching conditions to provide a stretched product with remarkably improved physical properties as represented by impact resistance and gas-barrier property inclusive of hot water resistance. The thus-obtained stretched product of aliphatic polyester is provided with increased orientation degree at not only amorphous parts but also crystalline parts as represented by (a) remarkably higher crystal melting point compared with the unstretched product, (b) an increase in sub-dispersion peak temperature according to dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, or (c) an increase in orientation degree according to wide-angle X-ray diffractometry and an increase in main dispersion peak temperature according to dynamic viscoelasticity measurement.

Abstract: An aperture diameter of a variable diaphragm, which includes six diaphragm blades, is changed during an exposure. When image-taking operation is carried out, the variable diaphragm is set in a small aperture setting in which an f-number is one step larger than a proper aperture setting which is calculated by metering light. The variable diaphragm is driven from a small aperture position, and increases the aperture diameter gradually. The variable diaphragm is moved to a large aperture position in which the f-number is one step smaller than the proper aperture setting. The exposure is started after the variable diaphragm is driven from the small aperture position to the large aperture position. The aperture diameter changes such that the exposure amount is approximately equal to the proper aperture setting. The image taking is completed when the variable diaphragm is driven to the large aperture position after the exposure.

Abstract: An occupant determination device for a vehicle seat includes a load sensor provided at a seat body, a controller for calculating a detection load value based on a load value output from the load sensor and for determining an occupant sitting on the vehicle seat by comparing the detection load value and a predetermined threshold value, a determining means for determining whether or not a child restraint system is equipped on the vehicle seat based on a variation of the detection load value and a detecting means for detecting whether or not the vehicle is stopped. When a vehicle stop condition is not detected by the detecting means, the determining means does not determine whether or not the child restraint system is equipped on the seat.

Abstract: An occupant determining device includes a load detecting sensor provided on a seat body and a controller. The controller calculates a detected load value based on an output value of the load detecting sensor and performs occupant determination based on the detected load value. The occupant determination state is switched to an adult determination state when a certain delaying time elapses after the detected load value exceeds a determination threshold. The controller sets plural determination thresholds, and the larger each determination threshold being exceeded by the detected load value is, the shorter the delaying time is set.

Abstract: Crystalline polyglycolic acid wherein a difference between the melting point Tm and the crystallization temperature Tc2 is not lower than 35° C., and a difference between the crystallization temperature Tc1 and the glass transition temperature Tg is not lower than 40° C. A production process of polyglycolic acid modified in crystallinity, comprising applying heat history to crystalline polyglycolic acid at a temperature of not lower than (the melting point Tm of the crystalline polyglycolic acid+38° C.). A polyglycolic acid composition comprising crystalline polyglycolic acid and a heat stabilizer, wherein a difference (T2−T1) between the temperature T2 at 3%-weight loss on heating of the polyglycolic acid composition and the temperature T1 at 3%-weight loss on heating of the crystalline polyglycolic acid is not lower than 5° C.

Abstract: Crystalline polyglycolic acid wherein a difference between the melting point Tm and the crystallization temperature Tc2 is not lower than 35° C., and a difference between the crystallization temperature Tc1 and the glass transition temperature Tg is not lower than 40° C. A production process of polyglycolic acid modified in crystallinity, comprising applying heat history to crystalline polyglycolic acid at a temperature of not lower than (the melting point Tm of the crystalline polyglycolic acid+38° C.). A polyglycolic acid composition comprising crystalline polyglycolic acid and a heat stabilizer, wherein a difference (T2−T1) between the temperature T2 at 3%-weight loss on heating of the polyglycolic acid composition and the temperature T1 at 3%-weight loss on heating of the crystalline polyglycolic acid is not lower than 5° C.

Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a current component control section which outputs q axis and d axis negative-sequence components and q axis and d axis positive-sequence components based on a detected current value or a voltage value, a current component control which compares a current component with the current instruction value from an instruction value generator and outputs to an adder/subtractor the result, a converter converting a control signal output from the adder/subtractor into three-phase components, and an adder adding these three-phase components to respective phases and outputting the result to a power conversion section.