Abstract: An air conditioner includes: an air-conditioning control unit; a data read and write unit; a data control unit; and an operation unit. The air-conditioning control unit controls air-conditioning running based on running information; the data read and write unit to which a storage medium configured to store therein data can be removably connected; the data control unit transfers the running information and the operation setting information transmitted from the air-conditioning control unit to the data read and write unit; and the operation unit can input the operation setting information for performing an operation of the air-conditioning running.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes: an air-conditioning control unit; a data read and write unit; a data control unit; and an operation unit. The air-conditioning control unit controls air-conditioning running based on running information; the data read and write unit to which a storage medium configured to store therein data can be removably connected; the data control unit transfers the running information and the operation setting information transmitted from the air-conditioning control unit to the data read and write unit; and the operation unit can input the operation setting information for performing an operation of the air-conditioning running.

Abstract: A hybrid polymer has a structure in which a polyolefin segment and a polar polymer segment are connected not via a bonding group containing a heteroatom. A method of the invention produces the hybrid polymer with industrial advantages. The hybrid polymer includes a polyolefin segment (A) and a polar polymer segment (B), the polar polymer segment being obtained by radical polymerization of a radically polymerizable monomer.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin comprising a copolymer having a structure that a propylene-based polyolefin segment (a) and a segment (b) containing a lactic acid as a constituent are bonded in a block state and/or a graft state through a vinyl monomer having a hydroxyl group, wherein a number average molecular weight of the propylene-based polyolefin segment (a) is from 1,000 to 100,000, a number average molecular weight of the segment (b) containing lactic acid as a constituent is from 1,000 to 200,000, and a weight composition of the propylene-based polyolefin segment (a) and the segment (b) containing lactic acid as a constituent is from 10/90 to 90/10. The modified polyolefin resin can be used in a resin composition containing an aliphatic polyester resin (A), a polyolefin resin (B) and the modified polyolefin resin (C). The composition can exhibit excellent heat resistance and impact resistance and can be used for molding various parts.

Abstract: A novel olefin-based polymer has excellent thermal resistance, as well as excellent balance among various properties. The olefin-based polymer is an olefin-based polymer comprising 50 to 100% by weight of a constituent unit derived from 4-methyl-1-pentene, and 0 to 50% by weight of a constituent unit derived from at least one olefin selected from olefins having 2 to 20 carbon atoms except 4-methyl-1-pentene, and having the following properties: i) the diad isotacticity is 70% or greater, ii) the ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn) as measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is in the range of 1.0 to 3.5, and iii) the intrinsic viscosity [?] is 0.5 (dl/g) or greater.

Abstract: A group of polymers comprising a plurality of polyolefin chains and polar polymer chains and having a multi-branched structure such as a block structure, a graft structure and a star-shaped structure is produced efficiently by polymerizing or reacting a combination of various polar monomers and their polymers i.e. polar polymer chains by using a functional group-containing polyolefin as a macroinitiator, a macromonomer or a reactive polymer. The resulting multi-branched polymer has a specific shape such as a block structure, a graft structure or a star-shaped structure, and has properties of both the polyolefin and polar polymer, thus exhibiting useful performance in various uses in films and compatibilizing agents as a novel polyolefin-based polymer.

Abstract: Provided is a new adhesive polyolefin resin composition, containing 1 to 100% by weight of a high polymer structure, that has good heat resistance and excellent adhesion performance to polyolefins and various polar materials, wherein a polyolefin segment (A) is bonded with an addition polymer segment (B) of a non-olefinic vinyl monomer and a reactive group is introduced into the addition polymer segment (B) and an adhesive or dispersion obtained therefrom.

Abstract: An image data generator generates first image data consisting of a plurality of color data and being an image information for each pixel. An image processor including a color converter applies image processing such as color conversion on the first image data. An image display unit displays an image using image data consisting of second color data. An image data output unit outputs the first image data to the outside. The image display unit performs image display using the image data having received image-processing such as color conversion, while the image data output unit and outputs to the outside the image data before receiving the image processing. It is possible to obtain an image processing device capable of realizing an “exact color reproduction” or a “preferred color reproduction” on an image display image display unit, and outputting, to the outside, image data in the form of a standard image data, without reflecting the characteristics of the image display unit.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a resin composition excellent in mechanical properties and solvent resistance, and the resin composition (C) of the present invention comprises an polyolefin (A1) and an olefinic block polymer (A2), wherein the olefinic block polymer (A2) comprises, as a constitutional unit, a block (a) which is a polyolefin component and a block (b) which is a polymer unit composed of a vinyl monomer having a solubility parameter of from 18 to 25 J/m and the block (a) and the block (b) are bonded each other by a covalent bond. Moreover, another invention of the present invention is to provide a laminated structure having a laminated configuration in which a layer comprising an olefinic polymer layer and a layer comprising other synthetic resins, a metal and the like are strongly bonded through an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises the resin composition (C).

Abstract: It is an object to provide a new polyolefin hybrid polymer composed of a polyolefin segment and a polar polymer segment (Z) and a method for manufacturing the hybrid polymer by an industrially advantageous procedure. A polyolefin hybrid polymer composed of a polyolefin segment and a polar polymer segment (Z), wherein the polyolefin hybrid polymer is a modified compound of maleic polyolefin (A), is characterized by comprising a constitutional unit represented by the general formula (I): wherein Z represents a polar polymer segment obtained by polymerizing monomers of at least one kind selected from organic compounds having at least one carbon-carbon unsaturated bond, and F represents a group including an unsaturated bond.

Abstract: A novel hybrid polymer has a structure in which a polyolefin segment and a polar polymer segment are connected not via a bonding group containing a heteroatom. A method of the invention produces the hybrid polymer with industrial advantages. The hybrid polymer includes a polyolefin segment (A) and a polar polymer segment (B), the polar polymer segment being obtained by radical polymerization of a radically polymerizable monomer.

Abstract: A novel olefin-based polymer has excellent thermal resistance, as well as excellent balance among various properties. The olefin-based polymer is an olefin-based polymer comprising 50 to 100% by weight of a constituent unit derived from 4-methyl-1-pentene, and 0 to 50% by weight of a constituent unit derived from at least one olefin selected from olefins having 2 to 20 carbon atoms except 4-methyl-1-pentene, and having the following properties: i) the diad isotacticity is 70% or greater, ii) the ratio (Mw/Mn) of the weight average molecular weight (Mw) to the number average molecular weight (Mn) as measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is in the range of 1.0 to 3.5, and iii) the intrinsic viscosity [?] is 0.5 (dl/g) or greater.

Abstract: A polyolefin-based molded product having excellent printability, coatability, heat resistance, impact resistance, hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity, or exhibiting excellent performance such as the performance of adhesion with metal, plastics, paper and the like, that is, a polyolefin-based molded product which is coated with a polar segment layer through covalent bonding, without impairing the properties of the polyolefin base material and without substantial delamination at the interface, based on a novel conception that a polyolefin molded product has a structure of being coated with polar polymer segments at the surface, and a vinylic monomer or a small-membered cyclic compound is polymerized on the surface; and a method for producing the same are provided.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin resin comprising a copolymer having a structure that a propylene-based polyolefin segment (a) and a segment (b) containing a lactic acid as a constituent are bonded in a block state and/or a graft state through a vinyl monomer having a hydroxyl group, wherein a number average molecular weight of the propylene-based polyolefin segment (a) is from 1,000 to 100,000, a number average molecular weight of the segment (b) containing lactic acid as a constituent is from 1,000 to 200,000, and a weight composition of the propylene-based polyolefin segment (a) and the segment (b) containing lactic acid as a constituent is from 10/90 to 90/10. The modified polyolefin resin can be used in a resin composition containing an aliphatic polyester resin (A), a polyolefin resin (B) and the modified polyolefin resin (C). The composition can exhibit excellent heat resistance and impact resistance and can be used for molding various parts.

Abstract: Olefin block copolymers (A-1) are disclosed represented by the formula (I) PO1-g1-B1 . . . (I) wherein PO1 is a segment comprised of repeating units derived from an olefin having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, g1 is an ester, ether, amide, imide, urethane, urea, silylether or carbonyl linkage, and B1 is a segment containing an unsaturated hydrocarbon or a hetero atom. The olefin block copolymers are suitable for uses in adhesives, various molded articles such as construction and civil engineering materials, automobile interior and exterior materials, gasoline tanks, electric and electronic parts, medical care and sanitation materials, materials of miscellaneous goods, resin materials having environmental degradation properties, films and sheets, modifiers and dispersions.

Abstract: A novel graft polymer useful in various uses that has a polyolefin backbone having polyolefin segments excellent in moldability can be obtained by homopolymerizing a novel polyolefin macromonomer or polymerizing the novel polyolefin macromonomer in the coexistence of other olefins depending on need, wherein the macromonomer has at the terminal of its polyolefin chain a vinyl group whose ?-position may be substituted, and the macromonomer can be efficiently obtained by a method, for example, successively carrying out i) a step of producing a polyolefin having a hydroxyl group at the terminal of the polyolefin chain and ii) a step of converting the terminal hydroxyl group of the polyolefin in chain into an acryloyl group, a methacryloyl group or a styryl group.

Abstract: A branched olefin copolymer demonstrating excellent performance in various uses, comprising a building block (A) represented by formula (1) below and a building block (B) represented by formula (2) below, obtained by e.g.

Abstract: A token-operated game machine enabling continuous insertion of tokens without stop of a game such that a player can enjoy the game without troublesome motions such as crouching or reaching out. A game is played by inserting a token into a token entrance, and a token is paid out based on the game result. The token-operated game machine 10 has a token receiving section for receiving paid-out tokens, and a entryway 40 for slidably moving tokens from the token receiving section to the token entrance.

Abstract: A novel olefin polymerization catalyst is provided which comprises (A) a transition metal compound or lanthanoid compound containing two or more atoms selected from the group consisting of boron, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, and selenium; and (B) a Lewis acid. A process for producing an olefin polymer is also provided. The catalyst has a high olefin polymerization activity without a combined use of an expensive organoaluminum oxy-compound or organoboron compound, and can maintain the high activity for a long polymerization time.

Abstract: A token-operated game machine enabling continuous insertion of tokens without stop of a game such that a player can enjoy the game without troublesome motions such as crouching or reaching out. A game is played by inserting a token into a token entrance, and a token is paid out based on the game result. The token-operated game machine 10 has a token receiving section for receiving paid-out tokens, and a entryway 40 for slidably moving tokens from the token receiving section to the token entrance.