Abstract: A coating material, green sheet and the method capable of producing a green sheet without a pin hole, having enough strength to be peeled from a support body and excellent surface smoothness even when the green sheet is extremely thin, and being suitable to make an electronic device thin and multilayered, are provided. The present invention provides a green sheet coating material comprising a ceramic powder, a binder resin including a butyral based resin as a main component thereof, and a solvent. The solvent includes a first solvent having an SP value as a solubility parameter of 10 or larger and a second solvent having the SP value of 8 or larger but smaller than 10. The second solvent is included by 20 to 60 wt % and, preferably, 25 to 60 wt % with respect to 100 wt % of the solvent as the entire weight.

Abstract: A green sheet coating material including ceramic powder, a binder resin including a butyral based resin as the main component, and a solvent. The solvent includes a first solvent medium having a relatively low boiling point, wherein said binder resin is easy to be dissolved, and a second solvent medium having a relatively high boiling point. The boiling point of the second solvent medium is in a range of 130 to 230° C. The second solvent medium is included by 5 to 70 wt %, and more preferably 8 to 52 wt % with respect to 100 wt % of the entire solvent.

Abstract: A method and system acquire a received impulse radio signal by correlating a region, including a plurality of cells, of the received impulse radio signal using multiple time-shifted template signals, each template signal having a different delay to obtain a correlation value for each template signal. The correlation values are averages, and a particular delay associated with a particular template signal having a substantial increase in successive averages to locate a signal cell in the region.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of ceramic slurry being used for producing a green sheet which can have a smooth surface, exhibits a satisfactory sheet strength, and is excellent in workability such as releasing, a green sheet produced by the use of the slurry produced by the method, and a multilayer ceramic device produced by the use of the green sheet is provided. According to the present invention, a manufacturing method of ceramic slurry at least comprising a ceramic powder and a binder resin solution, wherein a high-pressure dispersing treatment of the ceramic powder and a lacquer for preliminary addition, which is a part of the binder resin solution, is carried out so that a shearing rate is set to 1×107 to 1×108 [1/sec] to prepare a preliminary slurry, and at least a lacquer for post-addition, which a high-pressure dispersing treatment is not applied, is added to the preliminary slurry which a high-pressure dispersing treatment is applied.

Abstract: Emissions of NOx and CO are reduced from combustion devices such as coal-fired furnaces by increasing the stoichiometric ratio of burner(s) having a lower average temperature and increasing the stoichiometric ratio of burner(s) having a higher average temperature.

Abstract: A stapler having a driver unit vertically separated from its clincher unit, which has a clincher base with a clincher. The clincher base is disposed to vertically reciprocate, and sheets inserted between the base and driver unit are clamped between the base and the driver unit when the base is reciprocated. The stapler has a first motor to operate the driver, and a second motor to reciprocate the clincher base and operate the clincher. In sequence, the second motor reciprocates the base and makes the base clamp the sheets, and then stops; the first motor makes the driver drive out the staple, and then stops; the second motor makes the clincher clinch the staple legs having passed the sheets, the base is returned, and the second motor stops; and after clinching, the first motor returns the driver to the initial position, and then stops.

Abstract: A green sheet coating material includes ceramic powder and a binder resin containing a butyral based resin as the main component, which furthermore includes a xylene based resin as a tackifier. The xylene based resin is included in a range of 1.0 wt % or less, more preferably 0.1 or more and 1.0 wt % or less, and particularly preferably more than 0.1 and 1.0 wt % or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of ceramic powder.

Abstract: A system and method detect symbols of a modulated signal received via a plurality of channels of a wireless communications system. A symbol transmitted via the channels is initially estimated based on the channel estimate from either pilot symbol or previously estimated symbol, and then channel estimate is updated. The next estimate of the symbol is computed by using updated channel information and maximizing the expectation of the log likelihood function. The next estimate is then quantized according to the signal constellation. The quantized estimate of the symbol is compared with the previous estimate of the symbol to determine if the previous estimate of the symbol and the quantized next estimate of the symbol have converged. Otherwise, the quantized next estimate of the symbol is made as the input for the next iteration, and the updating, optimizing, quantizing, and comparing are repeated until the estimate converges.

Abstract: A process for removing blisters (large bubbles in a glassmelt) and seeds (small bubbles in a glassmelt) from a glassmelt by feeding helium bubbles having a diameter between about 0.5 centimeter and about 3 centimeters at a prescribed flow rate and location to effectively produce a substantially bubble-free article.

Abstract: A glassmelting furnace is heated by combustion of fuel having an atomic ratio of hydrogen to carbon of 0.9 or less.

Abstract: In a time-hopped impulse radio system, each symbol is transmitted over a channel having different multipath components as a set of Nf frames. Each frame includes one pulse. All frames of a received signal corresponding to the symbol are sampled to generate Nfa×L samples, where L is the number of samples for each frame. Then, the Nfa×L samples are combined according to a minimum mean square error criterion to obtain a decision variable corresponding to the symbol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing Web content from pull and push based services running on Web content providers to mobile users. A proxy gateway connects the mobile users to the Web content providers. A prefetching module is used at the proxy gateway to optimize performance of the pull services by reducing average access latency. The average access latency can be reduced by using at least three factors: one related to the frequency of access to the pull content; second, the update cycle of the pull content determined by the Web content providers; and third, the response delay for fetching pull content from the content provider to the proxy gateway. Pull content, such as documents, having the greatest average access latency are sorted and a predetermined number of the documents are prefetched into the cache. Push services are optimized by iteratively estimating a state of each of the mobile users to determine relevant push content to be forward to the mobile user.

Abstract: A driver unit 2 for striking out of a staple, and a clincher unit 3 for clinch of legs of a staple are separated vertically from each other, the driver unit 2 and the clincher unit 3, respectively, are provided with drive motors M1, M2, encoders 21, 40 are formed on respective drive shafts 12, 30, which drive the driver unit 2 and the clincher unit 3, to generate pulse signals P1, P2 upon rotation of the respective drive shafts, a control device 47 inputs thereinto the pulse signals P1, P2 to count the same, and the respective drive motors M1, M2 are controlled by the control device 47 on the basis of count values.

Abstract: In orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems, iterative maximum likelihood channel estimation and signal detection is preformed. The channel estimation gives the maximum likelihood estimates of time domain channel parameters. A cost function is defined. An iterative process estimates a joint channel impulse response and a transmitted signal that minimize the cost function, and thus solves the channel estimation and signal detection problem jointly without having specific knowledge of the channel.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a process for increasing production of product that is formed in a reactor having a combustion section in which fuel is burned to produce heat to drive an endothermic reaction occurring within a reaction section. Production is increased by adding supplemental oxygen to air or other oxygen containing gas used to support combustion in the combustion section, thereby to generate more heat to support an increase in the endothermic reaction. Additionally, supplemental oxygen can be introduced into the reaction section to partially oxidize a reactant to generate heat and to allow an increase in the production of the product. Supplemental oxygen may be added directly to the steam-methane mixture, or to the combustion air.

Abstract: Combustion of coal in which oxygen is injected into the coal as it emerges from burner produces ash having reduced amounts of carbon.

Abstract: A stapler involves a driver unit having a driver for punching out a staple toward sheets, a clincher unit having a clincher base with a clincher to clinch leg portion of the staple passing through the sheets, the driver unit being vertically separated from the clincher unit, wherein the clincher base is vertically reciprocably disposed, and the sheets inserted between the clincher base and the driver unit is clamped between the clincher base and the driver unit when the clincher base is reciprocated, the stapler further comprising a first driving motor provided for the driver unit to operate the driver and a second driving motor provided for the clincher unit to reciprocate the clincher base and operating the clincher.

Abstract: Fuel such as coal is combusted by feeding fuel and gaseous oxidant containing more than 21 vol. % oxygen, and preferably 21.8 to 29 vol. % oxygen, to a combustion stage at a stoichiometric ratio below that at which, if the stage were operated with air as the only oxidant, the same amount of NOx would be produced, and combusting the fuel and oxidant in said stage to produce combustion products and unburned fuel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for providing Web content from pull and push based services running on Web content providers to mobile users. A proxy gateway connects the mobile users to the Web content providers. A prefetching module is used at the proxy gateway to optimize performance of the pull services by reducing average access latency. The average access latency can be reduced by using at least three factors: one related to the frequency of access to the pull content; second, the update cycle of the pull content determined by the Web content providers; and third, the response delay for fetching pull content from the content provider to the proxy gateway. Pull content, such as documents, having the greatest average access latency are sorted and a predetermined number of the documents are prefetched into the cache. Push services are optimized by iteratively estimating a state of each of the mobile users to determine relevant push content to be forward to the mobile user.

Abstract: The wall thickness of at least a portion, which is plastically deformed, of a protruding portion used for calking is reduced to less than that of the other portions. Due to the foregoing, the bending rigidity of the protruding portion is decreased. Therefore, it is possible to bend (plastically deform) the protruding portion by a relatively low-intensity force. Accordingly, it is possible to easily execute the calking work (calking process) without the need to extend the length of the protruding portion (length from a forward end of the protruding portion to a bent portion). As a result, even if the pressure-withstanding property of an inter-cooler is enhanced by increasing the wall thickness of core plates, it is possible to prevent the calking workability from deteriorating and without increasing the size of the inter-cooler.