Abstract: A method for easily making an ice slab serving as the foundation of an artificial snow skiing field and artificial snow whose upper layer is powdery by flooding aqueous slurry made by adding water to granular wet water absorbent polymer on a slope of a natural skiing field or a slant or horizontal surface of a natural skiing field or indoor artificial snow skiing field equipped with a cooling system, obtaining the deposit layer of the granular wet water absorbent polymer in which water is separated from the slurry and freezing the deposit layer.

Abstract: An apparatus for adjusting the size of a sewing machine pattern for use in a sewing machine is disclosed. The apparatus includes a stitch data storage device for storing stitch data corresponding to each of a plurality of embroidery patterns; a pattern selecting device for selecting a desired one of the plurality of patterns stored in the storage device; a magnification selecting device capable of being manually operated for adjusting the size of the pattern; a magnification displaying device for displaying an adjustment value selected by the magnification selecting device; a key code determining device for determining the stitch data to be valid or invalid on the basis of a relevant one of key codes respectively added to a plurality of items of stitch data for forming the pattern in correspondence with the adjustment value selected; and a size adjusting device for adjusting the size of the pattern in correspondence with the adjustment value selected.

Abstract: A polybutene resin laminate comprising an intermediate layer (a) mainly comprising a butene-propylene copolymer (A) containing 15 to 40% by mole of propylene, said copolymer (A) having a melt flow rate in the range of from 0.1 to 30 g/10 min.; and an upper surface layer (b1) and a lower surface layer (b2) disposed on both sides of said intermediate layer (a), said surface layers mainly comprising a polyolefin resin (B). The laminate has excellent transparency, stretchability, flexibility, smoothness, heat sealability and self-adhesion, and may be stretched without undergoing generation of wrinkles and decrease in transparency and fastening properties.

Abstract: The composition of this invention is a poly(1-butene) resin composition which has characteristics such as excellent rigidity, creep characteristic and impact resistance, which a poly(1-butene) resin inherently possess, and is excellent in moldability, particularly moldability in high molding speed, so-called high speed moldability. This composition is particularly useful in the manufacture of hot water pipes.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, such as an FET or a charge coupled device, is provided having a channel or a charge coupled portion formed in a thin semiconductor layer which is substantially perpendicular to the substrate. Necessary electrodes, such as the gate electrode, and necessary insulating layers can be added at the thin semiconductor layer, and can maintain the necessary amount of electric current by securing the height of the semiconductor layer. The structure has the advantage that it can have its plane size reduced. Further, the semiconductor memory device using the above semiconductor device is suitable to high integration and has excellent electric characteristics.

Abstract: The semiconductor device having both vertically arranged CCDs and a horizontal CCD, such as, in connection with a solid state image pickup device, is provided with a horizontal CCD in which the transfer speed and the transfer efficiency of a horizontal CCD thereof is improved substantially. In such a device, a plurality of photodiodes are provided on a semiconductor substrate, vertical CCDs are provided on the semiconductor substrate for transferring signal charges of the photodiodes and a horizontal CCD is provided on the semiconductor substrate for transferring signal charges received from the vertical CCDs. The vertical and horizontal CCDs of such a semiconductor device are formed in a well structure provided on the substrate such that the depletion region extending from the channel of the horizontal CCD and a depletion region produced between the underlying substrate and the well are configured to meet each other under each of the transfer electrodes of the horizontal CCD.

Abstract: An amount of a lower thread to be supplied from a bobbin in each stitch forming operation is first determined on a theoretical basis in accordance with the stitch control data stored in a pattern memory. The sewing machine is provided with a bobbin rotation detector which detects every rotation of the bobbin to estimate a lower thread amount which has actually been supplied from the bobbin. A control unit compares the theoretical amount and the practical amount to lead out a correction coefficient which will be applied to the theoretical amount for the next stitch forming operation.

Abstract: A multifunction switching control system includes: a sewing speed controller of a computerized sewing machine controlled in response to a voltage of a sliding terminal of a variable resistor incorporated in the controller; an invariable resistor; a first A/D converter for converting the voltage from an analog signal to a first digital signal; and a second A/D converter for converting a voltage at a fixed terminal of the variable resistor from an analog signal to a second digital signal. A switch circuit for directly connecting one terminal of the invariable resistor to the fixed terminal of the variable resistor is provided in the controller. By comparing the second digital signal with a preset value, it is determined whether or not the switch circuit is so operated. In case that the switch circuit is so operated, sewing operation other than sewing speed controls of the machine are conducted.

Abstract: An electric motor of a sewing machine may be stopped naturally at an objective position by amending the amount of the motor's running errors as overrun or underrun with respect to the stop objective position without employing an especially forceful stopping circuit in spite of dispersions in a load inertia caused by mass-production of sewing machines or variances in loads during driving of the sewing machine.

Abstract: An expandable composition for non-crosslinked foam comprising:(a) 80 to 99% by weight of a 1-butene copolymer,(b) 20 to 1% by weight of an ethylene polymer, and(c) a blowing agent,the percentages being based on the total weight of the 1-butene copolymer and the ethylene polymer.

Abstract: A laminated structure comprising:(1) as a substrate, a non-crosslinked foam layer having an expansion ratio of 1.5 to 5 and composed of polybutene-1 or a blend of 100 parts by weight of polybutene-1 and up to 40 parts by weight of polyproylene and/or up to 30 parts by weight of polyethylene, and(2) laminated to one or both surfaces of the non-crosslinked foam layer, a film.

Abstract: An expandable composition for non-crosslinked foam comprising:(a) 80 to 99% by weight of a 1-butene homopolymer,(b) 20 to 1% by weight of an ethylene polymer, and(c) a blowing agent,the percentages being based on the total weight of the 1-butene homopolymer and the ethylene polymer.

Abstract: A non-crosslinked foam of a composition comprising:(A) 72 to 98% by weight of a 1-butene polymer; and(B) 28 to 2% by weight of a propylene polymer, the percentages being based on the total weight of the 1-butene polymer and the propylene polymer.

Abstract: A non-crosslinked foam of a composition comprising:(A) 72 to 98% by weight of a 1-butene polymer; and(B) 28 to 2% by weight of a propylene polymer, the percentages being based on the total weight of the 1-butene polymer and the propylene polymer.

Abstract: A stitch condition setting device for an electronically controlled sewing machine that forms stitch patterns and has a reciprocating needle, a fabric feed and an electronic memory to store stitch control signals, the stitch condition setting device having an apparatus for separately designating a change in a needle amplitude amount and a fabric feed amount in accordance with a selected stitch pattern, an apparatus for switching the designating apparatus between designating the change in needle amplitude amount and designating the change in fabric feed amount; and an apparatus responsive to the designating apparatus and the switching apparatus for changing the needle amplitude amount and the fabric feed amount in accordance with the selected stitch pattern.

Abstract: A position detecting device of a contacting system is incorporated in a computerized sewing machine, which actuates in relation with an output shaft of a pulse motor at an initial setting during sewing operation of a feed control pulse motor or an amplitude control pulse motor, outside of the control region of each of said pulse motors, and the pulse motors are initially set within said control regions by signals from the position detecting device. Therefore a device for initially setting the computerized sewing machine may be provided which is excellent in durability and could promise a stable initial setting for a long period of time.

Abstract: An electronic sewing machine is disclosed in which a first memory stores a plurality of patterns, a second memory temporarily memorizes pattern numbers each specific to the patterns, a first switch and address pointing means enable the second memory to memorize a series of selected pattern numbers, and a second switch resets the address pointing means. The address pointing means also advances the address of the second memory such that a display indicates the pattern numbers one after the other in the desired order.

Abstract: A control circuit of an electronic sewing machine is operated such that, in response to a pulse signal determining the common base stitching line of a selected combination of stitch patterns having different base stitching lines, a corresponding base stitching line control data is read out from an electronic memory for producing the selected combination of stitch patterns in series in reference to the single base stitching line thus determined.

Abstract: An olefin polymer composition comprising(A) 100 parts by weight of a homopolymer of 1-butene composed substantially of 1-butene units or a copolymer of 1-butene and another alpha-olefin containing at least 60 mole % of units derived from 1-butene,(B) 10 to 600 parts by weight of a homopolymer of propylene composed substantially of propylene units, a block copolymer of propylene and another alpha-olefin containing at least 50 mole % of units derived from propylene, or a random copolymer of propylene and another alpha-olefin containing at least 90 mole % of units derived from propylene, and(C) 10 to 600 parts by weight of a crystalline random copolymer of propylene and another alpha-olefin containing 50 to 87 mole % of units derived from propylene,at least one of components (A), (B) and (C) being partly modified with (D) an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative; and a laminated structure comprising a substrate and a layer of a 1-butene polymer laminated thereto through an adhesive layer of the olefin po

Abstract: A poly(1-butene) resin composition having and exhibiting excellent mechanical strength, rigidity, creep resistance and chloride water resistance is disclosed. The poly(1-butene) resin composition is particularly suitable as a material for joints pV in hot water pipes.The poly(l -butene) resin composition comprises of from about 60 to 95 weight parts of a poly(l-butene) resins (A), from about 5 to 40 weight parts of glass fiber (B) and a modified propylenic resin (C) present in an amount of from about 0.1 to 10 weight parts based on the combined weight parts of (A) and (B).