Abstract: An adhesive composition including: an organic solvent; (A) a polyolefin that has an acid anhydride group and that is soluble in the organic solvent; and a cross-linking agent, in which a ring-opening ratio of an anhydrous ring of the acid anhydride group in (A) the polyolefin is from 0 to 60%, and a thermally fusible member using the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium and a program, by which an image can be fetched in a size appropriate to a user. An image of a subject picked up by a camera is displayed in a predetermined first range corresponding to a size designated in advance within a predetermined display region of an LCD unit which corresponds to an image pickup range of the camera, but the image of the subject picked up by the camera is not displayed in a surrounding range of the predetermined display region around the first range. If a shutter button is depressed in this state, then the image displayed in the first range is stored in the designated size into a memory. The present invention can be applied typically to a PDA, a mobile terminal, a portable telephone set, a desk-top personal computer or the like which has a function as a digital camera.

Abstract: There is provided a method for continuous production of a functional membrane whereby a functional membrane in which a functional polymer is filled into the micropores of a porous resin sheet can be obtained both continuously and efficiently. The method for continuous production of a functional membrane of the present invention comprises a step for impregnating and depositing a polymer precursor having a functional group on a continuously conveyed porous resin sheet; a polymerization step for continuously feeding and bringing into contact first and second resin films to one side and the other side, respectively, of the precursor-impregnated/deposited sheet comprising the porous resin sheet into which the polymer precursor is impregnated and deposited, and polymerizing the polymer precursor in a state in which the sheet is sandwiched between the two resin films; a film peeling step; and a polymer removal step.

Abstract: A method is provided for producing a functional membrane having a structure in which pores of a porous substrate are filled with a functional polymer, the method having improved productivity and improving the stability of performance. The method for producing a functional membrane formed by filling pores of a porous substrate with a functional polymer involves carrying out a treatment of the porous substrate with a suspension of a surfactant before filling the pores of the porous substrate with a solution of the functional polymer or a solution of a precursor thereof, carrying out a drying step, and then filling with the solution of the functional polymer or the solution of the precursor thereof.

Abstract: To provide an inexpensive fuel cell membrane electrode assembly that is suitable for a direct methanol fuel cell, and for which the adhesion between an electrode and a fuel cell electrolyte membrane formed from a non-fluorine polymer material is improved, a polymer electrolyte added to the electrode can cope sufficiently with a high concentration of methanol, the advantages of the electrolyte membrane can be sufficiently exhibited, peeling apart of the electrode and the membrane does not occur while running as a fuel cell, and the productivity is high. An electrolyte membrane having a non-fluorine polymer as a substrate, and among electrodes layered on opposite sides of the electrolyte membrane, the electrode on at least one side being formed from a catalyst, an electrolyte, and a non-fluorine thermoplastic polymer.

Abstract: To provide a membrane electrode assembly suitable for a fuel cell or an electrochemical device, and a direct methanol fuel cell employing the membrane electrode assembly. A membrane electrode assembly comprising an electrolyte membrane formed from a porous substrate having the interior of pores filled with a polymer electrolyte, and an electrode disposed on opposite faces of the electrolyte membrane and having a catalyst layer formed from a catalyst and a polymer electrolyte, the polymer electrolyte content in the catalyst layer being higher in a face where the catalyst layer is in contact with the electrolyte membrane than in other regions of the catalyst layer; and a direct methanol fuel cell employing the membrane electrode assembly.

Abstract: To eliminate problems such as insufficient adhesion of an electrode and flooding being easily caused in a fuel cell electrolyte membrane having a structure in which a porous substrate is filled with an electrolyte polymer, and to provide a fuel cell electrolyte membrane for which the productivity is high, which is inexpensive, and for which permeation of fuel is suppressed. A method for producing an electrolyte membrane by filling pores of a porous substrate with an electrolyte polymer, the electrolyte membrane having the surface of the porous substrate exposed. In this production method, the polymer is obtained from an ion-exchange group-containing monomer, or a solution or a dispersion of the monomer with another component added as necessary.

Abstract: To provide an inexpensive electrolyte membrane that can be used in electrochemical device applications such as a solid polymer type fuel cell, has high proton conductivity, has excellent performance in preventing permeation of methanol when used in a DMFC, and has excellent durability when operated as a fuel cell. An electrolyte membrane comprising a crosslinked electrolyte polymer comprising as essential constituent monomers (a) a compound having a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond and a sulfonic acid group in one molecule, or a salt thereof, and (b) a (meth)acrylamide derivative represented by a specific structural formula.

Abstract: There is provided a method for continuous production of a functional membrane whereby a functional membrane in which a functional polymer is filled into the micropores of a porous resin sheet can be obtained both continuously and efficiently.

Abstract: A fuel cell is provided in which a unit comprising a unit cell and a current collector or a stack comprising a plurality of unit cells and current collectors is supported by an end plate, wherein the end plate employing a printed board having printed wiring on its surface.

Abstract: Provide an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, the electrolyte membrane having a structure in which pores of a porous substrate are filled with an electrolyte polymer, and for which, even if the membrane thickness and porosity of the substrate are equal and the amount of electrolyte used for filling is also the same, the highest fuel cell performance is given. An electrolyte membrane formed by filling pores of a porous substrate with an electrolyte polymer, and having a ratio of the maximum value to the minimum value (maximum value/minimum value) of the ionic conductivity when measured in a plane direction in the range of 1 to 1.5.

Abstract: Disclosed are an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium and a program, by which an image can be fetched in a size appropriate to a user. An image of a subject picked up by a camera is displayed in a predetermined first range corresponding to a size designated in advance within a predetermined display region of an LCD unit which corresponds to an image pickup range of the camera, but the image of the subject picked up by the camera is not displayed in a surrounding range of the predetermined display region around the first range. If a shutter button is depressed in this state, then the image displayed in the first range is stored in the designated size into a memory. The present invention can be applied typically to a PDA, a mobile terminal, a portable telephone set, a desk-top personal computer or the like which has a function as a digital camera.

Abstract: A method for setting up density values of highlight and shadow points of original pictures to a picture reproducing machine such as a color scanner and a color facsimile, wherein one of the original pictures now being scanned is discriminated to output a discrimination signal, and wherein the highlight and the shadow point density values or values corresponding to a density range of the one original picture are read out of a memory in which the highlight and the shadow point density values or the values corresponding to the density ranges of the original pictures are stored, by addressing the memory by means of the discrimination signal, and then are set up to the picture reproducing machine.