Abstract: A resin composition contains an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, wherein the ratio (Y/Z) of a lactone ring content (Y) to the sum (Z) of a carboxylic acid content (X) and the lactone ring content (Y) in terminal structures of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer is not less than 55 mol %, and at least one of a cinnamic acid component, a lubricant, a boron compound, and a conjugated polyene compound is present as a thermally stabilizing substance in a predetermined proportion based on the weight of the resin composition. Therefore, the resin composition is excellent in high-temperature thermal decomposition suppressing effect and thermal stability, and is free from odor emanation and coloration even if being processed at a higher temperature.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first switching element that is provided on a high side; a first diode element that is connected in parallel to the first switching element; a second switching element that is provide on a low side and connected in series to the first switching element; and a second diode element that is connected in parallel to the second switching element, wherein the first switching element and one of the first diode element and the second diode element are stacked adjacently to each other in a vertical direction of respective electrode surfaces thereof via a conductive electrode, the second switching element and the other of the first diode element and the second diode element that is different from the diode element adjacent to the first switching element are stacked adjacently to each other in a vertical direction of respective electrode surfaces thereof via a conductive electrode, and the first switching element and the second switching element are not adjacent in a vertical direction

Abstract: Included are an outer attachment member 12, which is coupled to one of a vibration generator 16 and a vibration receiver, an inner attachment member 11, which is coupled to the other one of the vibration generator 16 and the vibration receiver, and an elastic body 13, which is positioned on the outer side of the inner attachment member 11 to couple the outer attachment member 12 and the inner attachment member 11. The outer attachment member 12 is disposed in at least one pair on the outer side of the elastic body 13, with the inner attachment member 11 being interposed between the at least one pair of outer attachment members 12. Each of the at least one pair of outer attachment members 12 includes an attachment surface 14, which is attached to the one of the vibration generator 16 and the vibration receiver.

Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller configured to perform a read re-try in response to a failed normal read. The read re-try includes a first read of data at a first read voltage, a second read of data at a second read voltage obtained by shifting the first read voltage by a first shift amount, which is determined according to a bit count value obtained by counting a number of predetermined bit values in the first read, a third read of data carried out a plurality of times at a plurality of third read voltages, wherein each of the plurality of third read voltages are shifted from each other by a second shift amount, and a final read of data at a read voltage that is set closer to the second read voltage than the first read voltage.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an electrode connection structure and the like in which a plurality of elongated leads are arranged in parallel and a longitudinal side surface of each lead is connected to an electrode by plating treatment with high quality. [Solution] An electrode connection structure in which a semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or a substrate electrode is connected to a plurality of elongated leads 11 of a lead frame 10 by plating. The plurality of elongated leads 11 of the lead frame 10 are arranged in parallel, and a longitudinal side surface of each lead 11 is connected to the semiconductor chip 12 electrode and/or the substrate electrode by plating.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer which can be melt-molded at lower temperatures than conventional ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers to give molded objects that are inhibited from suffering undesirable coloration or having fish-eyes and that have excellent gas barrier properties. The ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer of the invention has a carboxylic acid ester group at a polymer terminal.

Abstract: A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller configured to perform a read re-try in response to a failed normal read. The read re-try includes a first read of data at a first read voltage, a second read of data at a second read voltage obtained by shifting the first read voltage by a first shift amount, which is determined according to a bit count value obtained by counting a number of predetermined bit values in the first read, a third read of data carried out a plurality of times at a plurality of third read voltages, wherein each of the plurality of third read voltages are shifted from each other by a second shift amount, and a final read of data at a read voltage that is set closer to the second read voltage than the first read voltage.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: an EVOH resin-based composition (pellet) which has a desired melt viscosity without increasing the boron content, thereby being effective for surging prevention; and a method for producing the resin composition. The EVOH-based resin composition contains a boric acid compound and the boric acid compound contains tetracoordinated boron. An EVOH-based resin paste containing a boric acid compounds is brought into contact with an aqueous solution containing a boric acid compound and alkali metal salt at an elevated temperature and an elevated pressure so that the amount of alkali metal salt is from 300 to 1000 ppm based on the EVOH-based resin paste, thereby converting the boron of the boric acid compound to tetracoordinated structure.

Abstract: An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition pellet group is provided, which is excellent in long-run processability. The ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition pellet group is a group of pellets of an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition containing an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer and a divalent metal salt, wherein not greater than 3% of the pellets have a b*-value of not less than 5 after the pellets are heat-treated at 230° C. for 30 minutes.

Abstract: An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition can be formed into a product having very few minute fisheyes. The ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition comprises: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer; and an iron compound; wherein the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer is a saponification product of an ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer prepared by using an organic compound having a half-life of 10 to 300 minutes at 60° C. as a polymerization initiator; wherein an amount of the iron compound is 0.001 to 2 ppm in terms of a metal by weight of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition.

Abstract: Provided is an EVOH resin pellet which is capable of reducing the occurrence of fish eyes in a melt molded article of an EVOH resin. The occurrence of fish eyes in a melt molded article such as a film that is produced by melt molding using pellets is able to be suppressed by setting the abundance of a conjugated polyene in a surface portion of the pellet to an intended amount or more.

Abstract: An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer has an ethylene content of 20 to 60 mol % and includes a carboxylic acid group and a lactone ring group present at terminals thereof, wherein the molar concentration (Y/Z) of a lactone ring molar content (Y) to a sum (Z) of a carboxylic acid molar content (X) and the lactone ring molar content (Y) is not less than 58 mol %. The ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer is excellent in high-temperature thermal stability substantially without thermal decomposition, and is free from odor emanation and coloration even if being processed at a higher temperature.

Abstract: Provided is a method for industrially mass-producing a modified xylopolysaccharide from biomass. The biomass used as a raw material includes xylan in plant cell walls, having at least one kind of substituents selected from acetyl, feruloyl arabinofuranosyl and coumaroyl arabinofuranosyl groups in the side chains of xylan. A passage controlling mechanism is internally arranged to generate plug-flow onto a slurry containing the biomass at a solid content in 10 mass % to 30 mass %. The hydrothermal treatment is performed under the controlled conditions: at a temperature of 160° C. or more, at a pressure equal to or higher than the saturated water vapor pressure at said temperature, and with a reaction severity R0 ranging from 3000 to 7000. A modified xylopolysaccharide is obtained as preserving the substituents in the side chains of xylan by performing a continuous hydrothermal treatment in a cylindrical plug-flow reactor.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an EVOH which has improved melt moldability and is excellent in terms of gas barrier property and secondary formability. The present invention relates to an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer that, when examined by liquid chromatography, gives an ethylene content distribution curve which has at least two peaks and in which the ethylene content (a) of a component that shows a highest peak (A), the ethylene content (b) of a component that shows a second highest peak (B), and the proportion (v) and distribution of component(s) (V) having ethylene contents (w) corresponding to specific regions (W) are within specific ranges.

Abstract: An anti-vibration structure includes an inner elastic body that is a separate body to a multi-layered material and that is disposed in a through-hole piercing through a layering direction of the multi-layered material, and a restricting member that has at least a portion embedded in the inner elastic body, that has one end coupled to an upper plate and another end coupled to a lower plate and that restricts separation of the upper plate and the lower plate.

Abstract: Included are an outer attachment member 12, which is coupled to one of a vibration generator 16 and a vibration receiver, an inner attachment member 11, which is coupled to the other one of the vibration generator 16 and the vibration receiver, and an elastic body 13, which is positioned on the outer side of the inner attachment member 11 to couple the outer attachment member 12 and the inner attachment member 11. The outer attachment member 12 is disposed in at least one pair on the outer side of the elastic body 13, with the inner attachment member 11 being interposed between the at least one pair of outer attachment members 12. Each of the at least one pair of outer attachment members 12 includes an attachment surface 14, which is attached to the one of the vibration generator 16 and the vibration receiver.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 represents a group represented by the formula: a group represented by the formula: or a group represented by the formula: and R2 represents a 3-methyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl group or 4-methoxycyclohexyl group.

Abstract: A compound represented by formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 represents a group represented by the formula: a group represented by the formula: or a group represented by the formula: and R2 represents a 3-methyltetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl group or 4-methoxycyclohexyl group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by the formula (I): or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof, which is effective as a therapeutic or prophylactic agent for a disease induced by A?, wherein Ar1 represents an imidazolyl group which may be substituted with a C1-6 alkyl group, or the like; Ar2 represents a phenyl group which may be substituted with a C1-6 alkoxy group, or the like; X1 represents a double bond, or the like; and Het represents a triazolyl group or the like which may be substituted with a C1-6 alkyl group or the like, or the like.

Abstract: An anti-vibration structure 10 includes an inner elastic body that is a separate body to a multi-layered material and that is disposed in a through-hole piercing through a layering direction of the multi-layered material, and a restricting member that has at least a portion embedded in the inner elastic body, that has one end coupled to an upper plate and another end coupled a lower plate and that restricts separation of the upper plate and the lower plate.