Abstract: The present invention is aimed to improve the poor insulation of the laminate-type ceramic electronic component having dielectric ceramic layers of 0.5 ?m or less. A laminate-type ceramic electronic component which is a laminated body having a laminated structure formed by laminating the first ceramic parts and the internal electrode layers alternately. The first ceramic parts have a main ingredient of ABO3 representing a perovskite-type crystal in which site A contains at least Ba and site B contains at least Ti. The laminate-type ceramic electronic component has external electrodes which are connected with the internal electrodes. The end edge parts of the internal electrodes other than the end connected with the external electrodes are connected with the second ceramic parts. The second ceramic parts contain aluminum oxide as a main ingredient.

Abstract: A communication device includes a transmission equalizer that equalizes a transmission signal transmitted in a signal transmission performed via a non-contact coupling, the transmission equalizer creates a plurality of equivalent transmission signals by branching the transmission signal. The transmission equalizer includes a plurality of signal paths that respectively provide time delays different from each other to the equivalent transmission signals, and an output path that provides a filter output based on the total sum of outputs of the signal paths to the non-contact coupling, and at least one of the plurality of signal paths includes a variable delay circuit that can change a time delay to be given to the corresponding transmission signal.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a keyboard portion, a first antenna module, and a connection portion. The keyboard portion includes a base plate to support a plurality of key portions, and a reinforcing member having an electric conductivity to be stacked on and reinforce the base plate. The first antenna module includes an antenna electrode to generate an induced electric field, and a ground portion to electrically connect to the antenna electrode. The connection portion is electrically connected to the ground portion and the reinforcing member.

Abstract: A laminate-type ceramic electric component such as laminated ceramic capacitor which has excellent mechanical strength and also has thermal shock resistance at the same time is provided. A laminate-type ceramic electronic component comprises an inner layer part, in which dielectric layers comprising ABO3 (which represents a perovskite crystal in which A contains at least Ba and B contains at least Ti) as a main component and internal electrode layers are alternately laminated; and a pair of outer layer parts which sandwich the inner layer part, wherein the outer layer parts comprise a continuous film containing a Ba—Si—Ti—O based crystal phase.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a transmission equalizer that equalizes a transmission signal transmitted in a signal transmission performed via a non-contact coupling including a magnetic coupling of a pair of coupling elements. The transmission equalizer creates plural equivalent transmission signals by branching the transmission signal; and includes plural signal paths that respectively give time delays different from each other to the equivalent transmission signals, and respectively multiplies the delayed transmission signals by tap coefficients. In addition, at least one pair of signal paths is set includes a variable delay circuit that can change the corresponding time delay to be given to the corresponding transmission signal.

Abstract: A fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer composition including a liner fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer represented by the formula (1) which has a hydrolysable group at a terminal and is hereinafter called “one-terminal modified polymer”, and a liner fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer represented by the following formula (2) which has hydrolysable groups at the both terminals and is hereinafter called “both-terminal modified polymer”, wherein an amount of the both-terminal modified polymer is 0.1 mole % or more and less than 10 mole %, relative to a total mole of the one-terminal modified polymer and the both-terminal modified polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor chip and a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package includes an antenna formed of a lead frame, a first wire that connects the antenna and a first electrode pad of the semiconductor chip, and a second wire that connects the antenna and a second electrode pad of the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip is disposed in one of four regions in the semiconductor package sectioned by line segments connecting midpoints of two pairs of opposing sides of the semiconductor package. A centroid of the semiconductor chip is positioned outside a closed curve composed of a straight line segment connecting a first connection point where the antenna and the first wire are connected and a second connection point where the antenna and the second wire are connected, and a line connecting the first and second connection points along the antenna.

Abstract: A charging control circuit for a secondary battery includes a temperature detection terminal for detecting the temperature of a secondary battery from an input detected voltage; a temperature comparison part having four threshold voltages corresponding to four reference temperatures, the temperature comparison part being configured to compare the four threshold voltages with the detected voltage input to the temperature detection terminal and to output a temperature range signal indicating the temperature range of the detected voltage; and a control part configured to control a charging current and/or a charging voltage based on the temperature range signal output from the temperature comparison part.

Abstract: A diluent for a fluorine-containing silicone coating agent, said diluent comprising (A) at least one selected from diisopropyl ether and hexane, and (B) a fluorinated solvent having a boiling point, at atmospheric pressure, which is higher than that of the component (A) by at least 30° C. and is 180° C. or lower, with a weight ratio of the component (A) to the component (B) ranging from 95/5 to 50/50.

Abstract: A decision feedback equalizer is provided for correcting ISI on a first postcursor without using received decision data of a preceding bit. The decision feedback equalizer includes an amplifying circuit that is to be supplied with received data, a duobinary signal decision device for determining an output signal from the amplifying circuit, the duobinary signal decision device including a flip-flop, a shift register for successively shifting a decision result held by the flip-flop, and a plurality of current control blocks that are to be supplied with respective output signals from the shift register, and feeding back output signals to an output terminal of the amplifier to control the potential thereof.

Abstract: A first communication device includes a first coupling element and a second communication device includes a second coupling element. The first and second communication devices are configured to wirelessly transmit, between the first and second communication devices, a differential-mode signal and a common-mode signal simultaneously through non-contact coupling between the first and second coupling elements.

Abstract: A transmission apparatus includes a transmission equalizer that equalizes a transmission signal transmitted in a signal transmission performed via a non-contact coupling including a magnetic coupling of a pair of coupling elements. The transmission equalizer creates plural equivalent transmission signals by branching the transmission signal; and includes plural signal paths that respectively give time delays different from each other to the equivalent transmission signals, and respectively multiplies the delayed transmission signals by tap coefficients. In addition, at least one pair of signal paths is set includes a variable delay circuit that can change the corresponding time delay to be given to the corresponding transmission signal.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer composition, which yields a coating having excellent adhesior to a substrate, good water- and oil-repellency, a low dynamic friction coefficient, good releasing property, good abrasion resistance and good stain resistance, and to provide a surface treatment agent comprising the same. The present inventors have found that a composition comprising a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer having a fluorinated group and a hydrolyzable group at each terminal and a fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer having hydrolyzable groups at both terminals can form a coating which has excellent water- and oil-repellency, a low dynamic friction coefficient, good releasing property, good abrasion resistance, and good stain resistance.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer processing tape sticking apparatus is provided and is capable of sticking a semiconductor wafer processing tape to a semiconductor wafer under the optimum conditions based on the processing data that has been written to a data carrier member and that has been read from the data carrier member without accessing the host computer unlike a conventional method. The semiconductor wafer processing tape sticking apparatus includes: a feeding apparatus provided with a feeding shaft to which a semiconductor wafer processing tape winding body can be detachably attached; a tape data read/write device for reading and writing the processing data that has been written to a data carrier member of the semiconductor wafer processing tape winding body; and a tape sticking apparatus for sticking a semiconductor wafer processing tape that has been fed out from the feeding apparatus to the semiconductor wafer based on the processing data that has been read by the tape data read/write device.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising a fluorine-containing silicon compound represented by the following formula (1) wherein Z is a linear or branched divalent polyorganosiloxane residue having 1 to 40 siloxane units, R is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, X is a hydrolyzable group, Q is a C2-12 divalent connecting group, a is an integer of 2 or 3, b is an integer of from 1 to 10, y is an integer of 1 to 5, and Rf is a group represented by the following formula (2) -Rf1-(Q-W-Q-Rf1)q-??(2) wherein Rf1 is a perfluoropolyether residue, W is an organopolysiloxane residue having 1 to 40 siloxane units and Q is as defined above and may be the same with or different from each other, and q is an integer of from 0 to 3, and at least one solvent selected from the group consisting of alcohols, esters, ethers, ketones, and perfluoroethers. The coating prepared from the composition is oil-repellent, water-repellent and has water sliding property.

Abstract: A fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer composition comprising a liner fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer represented by the formula (1) which has a hydrolysable group at a terminal and is hereinafter called “one-terminal hydrolyzable polymer”, and a liner fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer represented by the following formula (2) which has hydrolysable groups at the both terminals and is hereinafter called “both-terminal hydrolyzable polymer”, wherein an amount of the both-terminal hydrolyzable polymer is 0.1 mole % or more and less than 10 mole %, relative to total mole of the one-terminal hydrolyzable polymer and the both-terminal hydrolyzable polymer.

Abstract: A disclosed current source circuit includes a current mirror circuit having two enhancement-type MOS transistors, a depletion-type MOS transistor configured to be connected to a drain of one of the two enhancement-type MOS transistors and to function as a constant current source, and a resistor configured to have a negative temperature property and be connected to a source of the one of the two enhancement-type MOS transistors.

Abstract: A fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer composition including a liner fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer represented by the formula (1) which has a hydrolysable group at a terminal and is hereinafter called “one-terminal modified polymer”, and a liner fluorooxyalkylene group-containing polymer represented by the following formula (2) which has hydrolysable groups at the both terminals and is hereinafter called “both-terminal modified polymer”, wherein an amount of the both-terminal modified polymer is 0.1 mole % or more and less than 10 mole %, relative to a total mole of the one-terminal modified polymer and the both-terminal modified polymer.

Abstract: A varistor 1 comprises a varistor element 10, a pair of external electrodes 30a, 30b on one main side of the varistor element 10 and a resistor 60 on the same main side, wherein the resistor 60 is formed so as to connect the pair of external electrodes 30a, 30b. The varistor element 10 contains zinc oxide as the main component and Ca oxides, Si oxides and rare earth metal oxides as accessory components, wherein the proportion X of the calcium oxides in terms of calcium atoms is 2-80 atomic percent with respect to 100 mol of the main component and the proportion Y of the silicon oxides in terms of silicon atoms is 1-40 atomic percent with respect to 100 mol of the main component, X/Y satisfying formula (1) below, and the external electrodes and resistor contain oxides other than bismuth oxide and copper oxide 1?X/Y<3??(1).

Abstract: A solventless releaser composition is provided comprising (A) an organopolysiloxane containing at least two alkenyl groups and at least one monovalent fluorinated substituent group and having a fluorine content of 30-50 wt % and a viscosity of 100-2,000 mPa-s at 25° C., (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing at least three SiH groups, (C) a reaction regulator, and (D) a platinum catalyst. The composition is coated and cured to a substrate to form a release liner for use with silicone pressure-sensitive adhesives.