Abstract: To control a mobile node group that performs a formation flight, mobile nodes constituting the mobile node group and a ground station that wirelessly communicates with each of the mobile nodes are included. The mobile nodes are classified into a follower mobile node and a leader mobile node that collects information on the follower mobile node and controls the follower mobile node. The mobile nodes wirelessly communicate with one another based on beamforming or MIMO. Based on an installed on-board processor, the leader mobile node controls the follower mobile node, and the mobile node controls a position or an attitude of the mobile node itself for performing the formation flight. The ground station performs link control of the wireless communication with the mobile node or link control of the wireless communication between the mobile nodes, and control of selecting any ground station that wirelessly communicates with the mobile node.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fiber containing remarkably high heat resistance and softness and fiber-processed products using the same. A fiber formed from a polypropylene serving as at least one raw material, wherein the polypropylene is confirmed with NMR spectrometry that an isotactic pentad fraction (mmmm) of 0.950-0.995, a syndiotactic pentad fraction (rrrr) of 0-0.004, different bonds due to 2,1-insertion reaction and 1,3-insertion reaction in an amount of 0-0.3 mol %, and absence of terminal double bonds, and has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 50,000-1,000,000, and has a ratio (Mw/Mn) of weight average molecular weight (Mw) to number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1.5-3.8; and fiber-processed products using the fiber.

Abstract: A combination of a bottle (1) and a closure (2) for containing a drink, having an improved sealability. The bottle (1) is produced by a blow-molding process with a resin comprised mainly of a polyethylene terephthalate, so that a bottle neck (3) is in a non-crystalline state while a bottle body (5) is given an improved heat durability by a bi-axial orientation followed by a heat treatment for relaxation. The closure (2) is made of a thermoplastic resin such a a polyolefin and provided with a top wall and a side wall having a thread (7) on the inner surface (9) thereof corresponding to a thread (4) on the outer surface (12) of the bottle neck (3).

Abstract: A superior cylindrical filter having a long filtration life is provided, which filter is obtained by using interlaced filaments comprising 20% by weight or more of hot-melt-adhesive composite filaments composed of plurality of components having a melting point difference of 20.degree. C. or more and having two or more interlaced portions per meter of which the interlacing strength is 15.times.D mg or more, wound up on a core material in a cylindrical form under a tension of 15.times.D mg or less, the contact points of the interlaced filaments being bonded by melt-adhesion of the low melting component of the composite filaments.

Abstract: A heat-adhesive composite fiber consisting of core portion and sheath portion, the core portion being of the side-by-side type composite structure comprising two core components of different polypropylene base polymers at a composite ratio of 1:2 to 2:1, one of the core components having a Q value, expressed in terms of the weight-average molecular weight/the number-average molecular weight, equal to or higher than 6 and the other having a Q value equal to or lower than 5, and the sheath portion meeting at least the requirements that it should comprise a sheath component of a polyethylene base polymer having a melting point lower by at least 20.degree. C. than the lower one of the melting points of the two core components, and it should cover the core portion in a proportion of 25 to 55% by weight based on the total weight of it and the core portion.

Abstract: Nonwoven fabrics contain at least 30% by weight of heat-adhesive composite fibers consisting of core portion and sheath portion, said core portion being of the side-by-side type composite structure comprising two core components of different polypropylene base polymers in a composite ratio of 1:2 to 2:1, one of said core components having a Q value, expressed in terms of the weight-average molecular weight/the number-average molecular weight, equal to or higher than 6 and the other having a Q value equal to or lower than 5, and said sheath portion meeting at least the requirement that it should comprise a sheath component of a polyethylene base polymer having a melting point lower by at least 20.degree. C. than the lower one of the melting points of said two core components. The nonwoven fabrics are bulky and soft due to the crimps of the heat-adhesive composite fibers resultant from the core portion and are stabilized by the inter-fiber bonds of the sheath portion.

Abstract: Polyolefin foamed fibers consisting of composite fibers having a good spinnability, a small fineness and a non-waxy feeling, and a process for producing the same are provided, which foamed fibers having a structure wherein only a composite component (B) dominantly forming the fiber surface of composite fibers along the direction of the fiber axis thereof is substantially foamed and a part of the resulting foamed cells are burst open on the fiber surface, and which process comprises adding a foaming agent only to the above component (B) and combining two composite components so that the composite ratio thereof is 30/70 or higher and the theoretical average thickness of the component (B) in the cross-section of the unstretched fibers is 2 to 15 microns.

Abstract: Non-woven fabrics having light weight, high strength, soft hand and not having any waxy feeling is provided by subjecting fiber admixture to heat treatment, which fiber admixture is composed of foamed fiber, heat adhesive fiber and other kinds of fibers if necessary.

Abstract: A binding strap manufactured by the embossment of a relatively narrow and flat band obtained by the extrusion molding of a starting material consisting predominantly of a thermoplastic synthetic resin having good crystal orientating tendency followed by stretching the so extruded band to a high degree in the extrusion direction, wherein there are present at both the front and back sides of said strap two sets of a multiplicity of parallel grooves, said two sets of grooves obliquely intersecting each other; said grooves at the front and back sides being in register; the state of crystal orientation in the extrusion direction in the grooved portions, which are distributed reticulately over the whole of the strap, being substantially reduced as compared with the other portions.