Abstract: In the case of thickening a feed resin without pre-drying, a device is taught to enhance the thickening effect. The device includes a chamber 4 having a mixing rotor therein for continuously mixing a resin between a feed port 2 and a discharge port 3. A plurality of vent ports 7 connected to vacuum pumps 8, 9 are provided for reducing the pressure in the chamber. An element, e.g. a screw feeder 10, is provided for introducing a viscosity-increasing chemical agent into the chamber. The screw feeder is isolated from the reduced pressure areas of the chamber by elements 35, e.g. reverse screw flights of the rotor. In operation, feed resin from a hopper 6 enters the chamber through port 2 and is dehydrated while being continuously mixed in a drying section 14 via vents 7. After addition of the chemical agent, the resin is continuously mixed in a thickening section 15 while being deaerated.

Abstract: A high-level synthesis method comprising the steps of converting an operating description describing one or more operations to a control data flow graph (CDFG) including one or more nodes representing the one or more operations and one or more I/O branches representing a flow of data, scheduling the CDFG obtained by the converting step, and allocating one or more logic circuits required for executing the CDFG obtained by the scheduling step. A portion of the CDFG in the converting step is subjected to logical synthesis in advance to generate a node, and the portion of the CDFG is replaced with that node.

Abstract: In an electrical connector for a flat cable, a pressure member (15) can freely rotate between an open position to open an inserting space to enable the insertion of the flat cable (C) into an open mouth and a close position to press the flat cable to contact section (12) closing the inserting space. A part of an upper wall (7) of a housing (1) has a opening which is open towards the open mouth (14). The pressure member (15) can move into the opening when it turns over to the open position, and is supported by a bearing section (11) at a support member held in the housing so as to freely rotate. The upper edge (9A) of the bearing section of the support member is positioned outer than the inner surface of the upper wall of the housing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum composite material having neutron absorbing power that improves the ability to absorb neutrons by increasing the content of B, while also being superior to materials of the prior art in terms of mechanical properties and workability. The aluminum composite material having neutron absorbing power contains in Al or an Al alloy matrix phase B or a B compound having neutron absorbing power in an amount such that the proportion of B is 1.5% by weight or more to 9% by weight or less, and the aluminum composite material has been pressure sintered.

Abstract: An optical fiber module of the invention is an optical fiber module easily fabricated and excellent in the characteristics of enduring high intensity light, for example. The connection end face of an optical fiber array as an optical component is faced to the connection end face of a planar lightwave circuit component. An optical fiber array is also disposed on the connection end face of the planar lightwave circuit component opposite to the optical fiber array. The corresponding connection end faces are connected to each other with an adhesive. A no adhesive filled part where the adhesive is not applied in the light transmitting area is disposed in at least one of bonding parts thereof.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus 20 is of a portable type and has a thin body integral with a display screen holdable by both hands HR, HL of a user for viewing purposes. Disposed on a front of the body 21 are a flat display panel 22 and various operation buttons 23-27, and first and second touch sensors 28 and 29. The first touch sensor 28 is disposed on the apparatus at a position where when the body 21 is held by both the hands of the user, a touch surface of the first sensor 28 is easily operated vertically by a finger of the user's right-hand HR whereas the second touch sensor 29 is disposed at a position where when the body 21 is held by both the hands of the user, its touch surface is easily operated horizontally by a finger of the user's left-hand HL (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A water jet propulsion type outboard motor (1) which includes: a power source (2); a driving system; a housing (3); a curved tubular duct member (5); guide blades (22); and an impeller (14). The duct member (5) is fixed to the housing (3) on which the power source (2) is mounted, and having a suction port (9a) and a discharge port (11a). The guide blades (22) are provided within the duct member in the vicinity of the discharge port (11a) of the duct member (5). The impeller (14) is rotated by the driving system for transmitting a driving power of the power source (2), and has a spiral blade (20) with outer peripheral edge thereof close to an inner peripheral face of the duct member (5), and outer peripheral distal end portion thereof extending toward the suction port (9a).

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a tocotrienol derivative which is highly water-soluble and shows high bioavailability in the living body and &ggr;-CEHC delivering agent. (A tocotrienolcarboxylic acid ester derivative represented by the general formula (I). (wherein R2 means a carboxylic acid residue having a nitrogen substituent, and R1 and R3 mean a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a digital audio disk recorder with improved ease of use, which can easily and efficiently superimpose a take of a short sound during broadcasting. In order to output takes of a plurality of short sounds, buttons “Key Name” corresponding to the takes of the sounds are displayed on a display screen for monitoring a state of broadcasting. By operating any of the buttons during broadcasting of a program for broadcasting displayed as a play list, the take of the short sound assigned to the button can be superimposed on a signal being broadcasted.

Abstract: A storage control apparatus is coupled to a central processing unit (CPU) and a storage unit to control input/output of data between the CPU and the storage unit. The storage control apparatus has at least two processors coupled to the CPU and the storage unit, a cache memory (CM) unit for temporarily storing data of the storage unit, a shared memory (SM) unit for storing information concerning control of the CM unit and the storage unit, and a selector coupled to the at least two processors, the CM unit and the SM unit through access paths to selectively apply access requests from the at least two processors to the CM unit and the SM unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a non-heat treated steel for soft niriding, which can provide forged parts exhibiting equal to or larger than the limit strain at which cracks occur in straightening by bending and equal to or larger than the fatigue strength when compared with the parts of conventional heat treated steel, such as S48C. The non-heat treated steel for soft nitriding consists essentially of, by weight, C: 0.2-0.6%, Si: 0.05-1.0%, Mn: 0.25-1.0%, S: 0.03-0.2%, Cr: up to 0.2%, sol-Al: up to 0.045%, Ti: 0.002-0.01%, N: 0.005-0.025%, and O: 0.001-0.005%; provided that the conditions, 0.12[Ti%]<[O%]<2.5[Ti%] and 0.04[N%]<[O%]<0.75[N%], are met; the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities; and the structure after hot forging being a mixed structure of ferrite and pearlite.

Abstract: A capacitive element C1 having a small leakage current is formed by utilizing a gate oxide film 9B thicker than that of a MISFET of a logic section incorporated in a CMOS gate array, without increasing the number of steps of manufacturing the CMOS gate array. The capacitive element C1 has a gate electrode 10E. A part of the gate electrode 10E is made of a polycrystalline silicon film. The polycrystalline silicon film is doped with n-type impurities, so that the capacitive element may reliably operate even at a low power supply voltage.

Abstract: The present invention provides an exposure pattern forming method using a rule-based proximity effect correction method to which graphic form arithmetic operation is applied.

Abstract: Second and third clutches are axially aligned so that the back side of the second clutch and the front side of the third clutch oppose each other, and a first clutch is positioned radially inward of the second and third clutches. Further, a clutch drum is extended so as to be used in common by the second and third clutches, the second clutch is engaged and disengaged from the axial front side by a second piston of a second oil pressure actuator, and the third clutch is engaged and disengaged from the axial rear side by a third piston of a third oil pressure actuator. The first through third clutches are positioned in a compact manner and can be independently operated.

Abstract: A grinding machine rotatably carrying a finish grinding wheel and a super-finish grinding wheel respectively on first and second wheel heads practices a method of grinding workpiece surfaces to super-finish surfaces with micro oil pockets. A surface of a workpiece rotatably carried on the machine is first ground with the finish grinding wheel to a predetermined diameter under the control of a sizing device. The workpiece surface is then ground with the super-finish grinding wheel to a target diameter under the control of a sizing device. The super-finish grinding is performed to the extent that peaks of a section curve representing the roughness of the workpiece surface attained by the finish grinding are removed but bottoms of the surface curve are left to a depth when the target diameter is reached, so that the bottoms so left of the roughness constitute the micro oil pockets.

Abstract: A method of separating a plate-like workpiece held by adhesion on an elastic adhesive pad from the pad. The elastic adhesive pad has innumerable pores in its surface and generates adhesive force when negative pressure is produced by the pores, after being crushed, by restoration force generated by elasticity and adhesion. The method includes the step of heating the elastic adhesive pad at a predetermined temperature to separate the plate-like workpiece from the elastic adhesive pad by air expanding in the pores.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a handover method, a base station, and a mobile station for a CDMA mobile communication system, to improve the efficiency of inter-frequency handover. Handover is achieved between a mobile station and distributed base stations and the like. The base stations have different traffic channel frequencies. In a normal mode, a signal unit transmitted through a traffic channel consists of four frames. In a compression mode, the base station temporally compresses two normal frames into a single frame period and then transmits the frames twice through the traffic channel. The mobile station switches the reception frequency of a present traffic channel and the reception frequency of a perch channel of the destination base station at intervals of two normal-mode frames at the head of each frame received from the perch channel. The mobile station then restores frames received from the traffic channel in the compression mode to the original frames and processes them.

Abstract: A recording apparatus has a paper feeder wherein single sheets of paper can be set, a paper delivery device for transporting paper fed from the paper feeder to a recorder, and a control unit for controlling operation of the paper feeder and the paper delivery device. The control unit has a skew removal execution mode of only the first sheet of paper where the paper tip is bitten into a paper delivery roller forming a part of the paper delivery device and then the paper delivery roller is reversely rotated for ejecting the paper tip for the first sheet of paper at the start of recording and then forward rotating the paper delivery roller for delivering the sheet of paper whose skew is removed to the recorder and delivering the second and later sheets of paper to a record area without executing the skew removal.

Abstract: A method of preventing darkening of the skin or inhibiting melanization caused by the irradiation of the melanin monomers with long wavelength ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 320-400 nm as well as a polymerization inhibitor of a biological dihydroxyindole compound comprising 3-O-ethyl ascorbic acid and an external skin treatment composition containing the same.

Abstract: In a short-wavelength laser module, long-term reliability is lost because of unnecessary gas deposited on the end face of its optical waveguide.