Abstract: A welding control device includes an actual position determination part configured to determine an actual position of the position control target on the basis of a weld characteristic amount detected from a captured image captured so as to include at least the position control target, the welding characteristic amount including at least one of a wire position of the weld wire or an electrode position of the electrode; a target position determination part configured to determine a target position being a target of the actual position corresponding to a weld condition for welding the weld target; and a position control part configured to execute a position control of the position control target to bring the actual position to the target position.

Abstract: A method for purifying acrylonitrile involving a purification step of distilling an acrylonitrile solution containing acrylonitrile, hydrogen cyanide, and water, wherein the purification step involves a first step of separating a side stream withdrawn from a first position of a distillation column into an organic layer and an aqueous layer, and then returning the organic layer to a second position of the distillation column, the second position being positioned below the first position and a second step of supplying water from a third position of the distillation column, the third position being positioned below the second position and above a lowermost stage of the distillation column is a novel method in which stabilization of product quality and reduction in load on the acrylonitrile production process can be achieved by stabilizing a hydrocyanic acid-removing dehydration column in the process for producing acrylonitrile.

Abstract: A method for purifying acrylonitrile involving a purification step of distilling an acrylonitrile solution containing acrylonitrile, hydrogen cyanide, and water, wherein the purification step involves a first step of separating a side stream withdrawn from a first position of a distillation column into an organic layer and an aqueous layer, and then returning the organic layer to a second position of the distillation column, the second position being positioned below the first position and a second step of supplying water from a third position of the distillation column, the third position being positioned below the second position and above a lowermost stage of the distillation column is a novel method in which stabilization of product quality and reduction in load on the acrylonitrile production process can be achieved by stabilizing a hydrocyanic acid-removing dehydration column in the process for producing acrylonitrile.

Abstract: The present invention provides a separator for an electricity storage device that is formed by superimposing two or more fiber layers, wherein at least one or more of the fiber layers is a synthetic fiber layer that contains synthetic fibers and a synthetic resin binding agent, and also provides a method of manufacturing the same. Moreover, the present invention provides a separator for an electricity storage device that contains thermoplastic synthetic fibers A, heat-resistant synthetic fibers B, natural fibers C, and a synthetic resin-based binding agent, and also provides a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Provided is a power storage device separator that is realized in the form of a heat-resistant, solvent-resistant, and dimensionally stable thin film. Also provided is a power storage device separator that can be realized in the form of a thin film which has excellent ion permeability and low resistance, which makes short-circuiting between electrodes and self-discharging difficult to occur, and in addition, which has excellent durability even after long periods of use under high temperature environments in the presence of organic solvents and ionic solutions.

Abstract: This invention is relates to a separator of a power storage device which is a laminate of a polyolefin porous membrane layer and a fiber layer comprising a solvent spun cellulose; and a separator of a power storage device, wherein the separator is a laminate of a polyolefin porous membrane layer and a fiber layer comprising a solvent spun cellulose, and the volume of a cavity part of the fiber layer is smaller than the volume of a resin part of the polyolefin porous membrane layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a stamper preform and others capable of obviating an Ni electroforming step taking a long time and readily producing a defective in production of a stamper and capable of forming an accurate and fine pattern of projections and indentations. A stamper preform 11 of the present invention has a base 1, a semi-crosslinked resist layer 2, and a prebaked resist layer 3 stacked in this order. The prebaked resist layer 3 contains a methoxymethyl melamine and bumps are readily formed therein by exposure and development (FIG. 1C).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a direct stamper to be used for molding optical discs, includes forming a layer of a crosslinkable substance all over a surface of a base disc, subjecting the crosslinkable substance to a first crosslinking reaction, thereafter, forming a photoresist layer on the crosslinking substance, subsequently, subjecting the photoresist layer to exposure to a laser beam having been modulated by a signal to be recorded, and then to development, so that exposed portions of the photoresist are formed into bumps on the crosslinking substance, and thereafter, further subjecting the crosslinking substance and the photoresist bumps to a second crosslinking reaction.

Abstract: A substrate with a negative type photoresist applied rotates and is continuously subjected to surface exposure, heating, and developing/etching/removing the resist each in a dry process. As a result, signal projections are formed onto the surface, which is machined to a stamper size.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a direct stamper to be used for molding optical discs, includes forming a layer of a crosslinkable substance all over a surface of a base disc, subjecting the crosslinkable substance to a first crosslinking reaction, thereafter, forming a photoresist layer on the crosslinking substance, subsequently, subjecting the photoresist layer to exposure to a laser beam having been modulated by a signal to be recorded, and then to development, so that exposed portions of the photoresist are formed into bumps on the crosslinking substance, and thereafter, further subjecting the crosslinking substance and the photoresist bumps to a second crosslinking reaction.

Abstract: A fiber bundle is wrapped with a tape by helically and entirely winding the tape around the bundle, while applying a constant longitudinal tension to the bundle; and thereafter unwinding and removing the tape from its last turn to gradually expose the bundle towards its basal end, while inserting the exposed portion of the bundle gradually into a cylindrical protector. The method keeps constant the outer diameter of the bundle by adjusting the tape tension, even if the bundles are composed of varied numbers of fibers in one protector, so that a wider use of the protector is realized. In the method, the wrapping operation does not produce any damaged fibers from which a fluid such as blood leaks in a hollow fiber apparatus, and no later adjustment is necessary for the wrapped bundles, thus improving the production efficiency.

Abstract: An image-receiving sheet which is used in combination with a heat transfer sheet having a dye layer containing a dye transferable through melting or sublimation with heat, characterized in that it has a receiving layer for receiving the dye transferred from the above-mentioned heat transfer sheet on one surface of a sheet substrate, and the weight of the solvent in the receiving layer is 1% or less of the weight of the solvent soluble components forming the receiving layer.

Abstract: An apparatus for simulating a color printing process comprises a scanning unit including a table on which four color separation films formed from a color original are placed side by side, a pair of flying spot scanner tubes, four lens systems for projecting raster images of the scanner tubes onto the four color separation films and four photomultipliers for converting light rays passing through the respective films into subtractive primary color signals of cyan, magenta, yellow and black; a control unit for effecting various adjustments and correction upon the color signals and including a zero adjuster, an after image corrector, a continuous tone gamma corrector, a screen gamma corrector, a soft/hard corrector, a negative/positive corrector, a flat etching device, a contrast adjuster, a light adjuster, a shadow adjuster and a partial adjuster; a color reproduction process unit for converting the adjusted and corrected subtractive primary color signals into additive primary color image signals of red, green a

Abstract: A signal reproduction apparatus comprising a pick-up means with a playback stylus tracing on engraved grooves of a record disk and a shaving means abutting on only the top portions of several number of the engraved grooves, wherein the shaving means effectively scrapes dust on the disk surface during the tracing movement in advance of the tracking motion of the playback stylus along the engraved grooves.