Abstract: An output circuit includes: an output portion which includes a plurality of output blocks each of which converts 2-bits parallel data to 1-bit serial data and outputs the converted serial data; a control signal generation circuit; a first clock generation portion; and a plurality of second clock generation portions which individually generate second clocks, wherein each of the output blocks includes: a latency expansion circuit which sequentially latches the 2-bits parallel data according to the reference clock and an inverted reference clock, selects two from the latched data signals based on the latency adjustment signal; and two-clocks flip-flop circuit which latches one of two outputs from the latency expansion circuit in synchronization with the second clock corresponding to the output block and latches the other of the two outputs from the latency expansion circuit in synchronization with the inverted second clock.

Abstract: A spectral characteristic measurement apparatus includes a spectrometer for spatially dispersing incident light depending on wavelengths and a detection portion for receiving light dispersed by the spectrometer. The detection portion includes a first detection area on which a component in a first wavelength range is incident and a second detection area on which a component in a second wavelength range is incident. The apparatus includes a correction portion for correcting stray light detected by the detection portion derived from light to be measured. The correction portion corrects a stray light pattern based on a first amount of change with respect to wavelengths in the first wavelength range of the stray light pattern and a second amount of change with respect to wavelengths included in a result of detection in the first detection area of the detection portion, to calculate a stray light component derived from the light to be measured.

Abstract: Disclosed is an acrylic rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of carboxyl group-containing acrylic rubber, 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of a diurethane compound represented by the general formula: R2(SO2)m(CH2)nOCONHR1NHCOO(CH2)n(SO2)mR2 (R1: a divalent organic group; R2: when it is in a carbamate structure form, a group that decomposes by the action of a basic vulcanization accelerator; n: 0, 1, or 2; and m: 0 or 1), 0.3 to 3 parts by weight of a diaminodiphenyl ether-based compound, and 0.08 to 1.2 parts by weight of an N-containing heterocyclic compound; the composition being free from 1,3-o-tolylguanidine. This acrylic rubber composition allows high-speed vulcanization, without using 1,3-di-o-tolylguanidine generating o-toluidine, and has excellent scorch stability. Furthermore, the vulcanization-molded product of the acrylic rubber composition can sufficiently satisfy compression set characteristics required for sealing parts.

Abstract: A spectral characteristic measurement method for measuring spectral characteristics of measured light with higher accuracy is provided. The spectral characteristic measurement method includes causing an optical measurement instrument having detection sensitivity in a first wavelength range to receive light in a second wavelength range which is a part of the first wavelength range, obtaining characteristic information indicating a stray light component from a portion of a first spectrum detected by the optical measurement instrument, that corresponds to a range other than the second wavelength range, and obtaining a pattern indicating a stray light component generated in the optical measurement instrument by subjecting the characteristic information to extrapolation processing as far as the second wavelength range in the first wavelength range.

Abstract: A parallel-serial conversion circuit includes an adjustment circuit that receives a parallel input signal having a plurality of bits and generates and outputs a parallel output signal having a plurality of bits. A conversion circuit coupled to the adjustment circuit generates a plurality of clock signals having mutually different phases with respect to a reference clock signal on the basis of the reference clock signal and serially selects the plurality of bits of the parallel output signal in accordance with the generated plurality of clock signals to convert the parallel output signal to serial 1-bit output signals. The adjustment circuit adjusts the output timing of each of the plurality of bits of the parallel output signal in time unit of half of one cycle of the reference clock signal.

Abstract: Providing an NBR composition substantially free of containment of an insolubilized substance-generating causative substance so as to prevent generation of an insolubilized substance due to extraction by a fuel while which composition is excellent in ozone resistance, ejectability from kneader, and which composition realizes a first compression set and a second compression set which are both 46% or less. An NBR composition including a polymer obtained by mixing an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), wherein the NBR composition is obtained without blending an insolubilized substance-generating causative substance, or, in case of blending, by blending an insolubilized substance-generating causative substance at an upper limit of 0.15 parts by weight or less, into 100 parts by weight of the polymer having a PVC content of 15.70 to 17.50 wt %.

Abstract: Provided are an oxidizing liquid for a chemiluminescent material, which has a flash point higher than that of a conventional oxidizing liquid and also has high safety while maintaining the level of chemiluminescent performance; and a chemiluminescence system. Disclosed are an oxidizing liquid for a chemiluminescent material, which produces a chemiluminescence phenomenon when mixed with a fluorescent liquid containing an oxalic acid ester and a fluorescent substance, includes hydrogen peroxide and a solvent and has a flash point of 60° C. or higher, wherein a solvent to be contained in the oxidizing liquid is a mixture of at least two compounds other than phthalate compounds; and a chemiluminescence system using the oxidizing liquid and a fluorescent liquid.

Abstract: A parallel-serial conversion circuit includes an adjustment circuit that receives a parallel input signal having a plurality of bits and generates and outputs a parallel output signal having a plurality of bits. A conversion circuit coupled to the adjustment circuit generates a plurality of clock signals having mutually different phases with respect to a reference clock signal on the basis of the reference clock signal and serially selects the plurality of bits of the parallel output signal in accordance with the generated plurality of clock signals to convert the parallel output signal to serial 1-bit output signals. The adjustment circuit adjusts output timing of each of the plurality of bits of the parallel output signal in time unit of half of one cycle of the reference clock signal.

Abstract: [Problem]To provide a method for producing a polyol-crosslinking, crosslinked fluororubber product which exhibits low tack properties and significantly increased rubber hardness. [Means for Solving the problem] The method comprises pressurizing, heating, and vulcanizing a fluororubber composition to mold a vulcanized product; the fluororubber composition comprising a polyol-crosslinkable fluororubber, a crosslinking accelerator including a quarternary phosphonium salt or a quarternary ammonium salt, and a polyol crosslinking agent, the weight ratio X of the crosslinking accelerator to the polyol crosslinking agent (crosslinking accelerator/polyol crosslinking agent) being from 0.90 to 3.00 for a quarternary phosphonium salt, and being from 0.4 to 0.6 for a quarternary ammonium salt; applying a treatment solution containing the polyol crosslinking agent and the crosslinking accelerator dissohttp://reedman/Manuals/Text_Manual/Section_03.htm - 3.

Abstract: A spectral characteristic measurement apparatus includes a spectrometer for spatially dispersing incident light depending on wavelengths and a detection portion for receiving light dispersed by the spectrometer. The detection portion includes a first detection area on which a component in a first wavelength range is incident and a second detection area on which a component in a second wavelength range is incident. The apparatus includes a correction portion for correcting stray light detected by the detection portion derived from light to be measured. The correction portion corrects a stray light pattern based on a first amount of change with respect to wavelengths in the first wavelength range of the stray light pattern and a second amount of change with respect to wavelengths included in a result of detection in the first detection area of the detection portion, to calculate a stray light component derived from the light to be measured.

Abstract: Disclosed is an acrylic rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of carboxyl group-containing acrylic rubber, 0.05 to 5 parts by weight of a diurethane compound represented by the general formula: R2(SO2)m(CH2)nOCONHR1NHCOO(CH2)n(SO2)mR2 (R1: a divalent organic group; R2: when it is in a carbamate structure form, a group that decomposes by the action of a basic vulcanization accelerator; n: 0, 1, or 2; and m: 0 or 1), 0.3 to 3 parts by weight of a diaminodiphenyl ether-based compound, and 0.08 to 1.2 parts by weight of an N-containing heterocyclic compound; the composition being free from 1,3-o-tolylguanidine. This acrylic rubber composition allows high-speed vulcanization, without using 1,3-di-o-tolylguanidine generating o-toluidine, and has excellent scorch stability. Furthermore, the vulcanization-molded product of the acrylic rubber composition can sufficiently satisfy compression set characteristics required for sealing parts.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a fluororubber-based sealing material which is excellent in sealing properties under high/low temperature load and is capable of sealing at a temperature of not higher than ?40° C. even when gas oil (diesel fuel) is used. [Means for Solving] A fluororubber-based sealing material obtained by crosslinking a composition for a fluororubber-based sealing material, said composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a fluorine-containing copolymer which contains 64 to 69% by weight of fluorine, has a crosslinking site derived from a bromine-containing compound and/or an iodine-containing compound and is capable of being crosslinked by a peroxide, 0.

Abstract: A simulation apparatus is provided with means for obtaining shape data expressing a simulation object, means for storing a constraint condition for a simulation in association with each type of object, means for storing, for each of one or more evaluation items for evaluating an object having an arbitrary shape satisfying the constraint condition, a procedure of a coupled analysis using one or more simulation means related to the evaluation item, means for accepting a type and an evaluation item for an object, means for reading out a procedure of a coupled analysis corresponding to the evaluation item based on the accepted evaluation item for the object, and means for reading out a constraint condition for an object corresponding to the accepted type and giving the constraint condition to the shape data to execute the coupled analysis in accordance with the procedure of the coupled analysis.

Abstract: Providing an NBR composition substantially free of containment of an insolubilized substance-generating causative substance so as to prevent generation of an insolubilized substance due to extraction by a fuel while which composition is excellent in ozone resistance, ejectability from kneader, and which composition realizes a first compression set and a second compression set which are both 46% or less. An NBR composition including a polymer obtained by mixing an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber (NBR) with polyvinyl chloride (PVC), wherein the NBR composition is obtained without blending an insolubilized substance-generating causative substance, or, in case of blending, by blending an insolubilized substance-generating causative substance at an upper limit of 0.15 parts by weight or less, into 100 parts by weight of the polymer having a PVC content of 15.70 to 17.50 wt %.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a rubber composition having: excellent sealing properties, heat resistance and acid resistance; a low reaction force, low hardness and low compression set; and excellent low-temperature recovery properties that contribute to sealing properties particularly in low-temperature environment. It is another object of the invention to provide uses of the rubber composition and main bodies on which the rubber composition has been mounted. The rubber composition of the present invention comprises a specific ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer [A], a SiH group-containing compound [B] having two SiH groups in one molecule, and a SiH group-containing compound [C] having three SiH groups in one molecule.

Abstract: Provided are an oxidizing liquid for a chemiluminescent material, which has a flash point higher than that of a conventional oxidizing liquid and also has high safety while maintaining the level of chemiluminescent performance; and a chemiluminescence system. Disclosed are an oxidizing liquid for a chemiluminescent material, which produces a chemiluminescence phenomenon when mixed with a fluorescent liquid containing an oxalic acid ester and a fluorescent substance, includes hydrogen peroxide and a solvent and has a flash point of 60° C. or higher, wherein a solvent to be contained in the oxidizing liquid is a mixture of at least two compounds other than phthalate compounds; and a chemiluminescence system using the oxidizing liquid and a fluorescent liquid.

Abstract: A timing adjustment circuit includes a determination unit for outputting delay information corresponding to a period of a first input signal, a storing unit for storing a plurality of correction values based on a circuit included in the determination unit, a correction unit for correcting the delay information based on a correction value selected from the plurality of the correction values, based on the delay information, and a first delay line for delaying a second input signal corresponding to the first input signal, based on the delay information corrected by the correction unit.

Abstract: A spectral characteristic measurement method for measuring spectral characteristics of measured light with higher accuracy is provided. The spectral characteristic measurement method includes causing an optical measurement instrument having detection sensitivity in a first wavelength range to receive light in a second wavelength range which is a part of the first wavelength range, obtaining characteristic information indicating a stray light component from a portion of a first spectrum detected by the optical measurement instrument, that corresponds to a range other than the second wavelength range, and obtaining a pattern indicating a stray light component generated in the optical measurement instrument by subjecting the characteristic information to extrapolation processing as far as the second wavelength range in the first wavelength range.

Abstract: An agent for improving the eating quality of chocolate products is disclosed; it comprises as an active ingredient a yeast extract comprising (a) free glutamic acid in an amount of at least 10 wt % (preferably at least 15%) as calculated for sodium glutamate, (b) disodium 5?-inosinate and disodium 5?-guanylate in a total amount of at least 1 wt % (preferably at least 1.5 wt %), and (c) 2-furanmethanol and/or 5-methyl-2-furanmethanol.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes a sound pickup unit configured to pick up sound and convert the sound into a sound signal; a signal recording unit including an actuator that is driven by a current supplied from a power source and that has a possibility of generating audible noise caused by the driving, the signal recording unit being configured to record the sound signal therein; a current detecting unit configured to detect the magnitude of the current and a temporal change in the current; and a signal processing unit configured to determine, on the basis of at least one of the magnitude of the current and the temporal change in the current, whether the audible noise has been generated and perform, when it is determined that the audible noise has been generated, noise removal processing for removing the audible noise from the sound signal, which contains the audible noise.