Abstract: A stage apparatus includes a substrate chuck configured to attract and hold a substrate, a pin configured to be able to attract and hold the substrate, the pin being configured to be able to protrude from the substrate chuck through a hole in the substrate chuck, a driving portion configured to move one of the substrate chuck and the pin relative to the other of the substrate chuck and the pin, and a control portion configured to control the driving portion, wherein in a case where the substrate and the substrate chuck separate from each other, the control portion controls the driving portion based on a first condition related to easiness of separation between the substrate and the substrate chuck.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the polymer has a polymer block (A) comprising principally vinyl aromatic monomer units, and a polymer block (B) comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, and has a Bragg spacing of 27 nm or larger and 50 nm or smaller.

Abstract: The card reader includes a peak detector that detects a peak point of a reproduced signal according to a threshold. The peak detector applies, to a first peak value to be determined, a second peak value immediately before the first peak value, a third peak value, which is the second preceding peak value with respect to the first peak value, and a next peak value. When a difference between a first intermediate value, which is a value between the third peak value and the second peak value, and a second intermediate value, which is a value between the second peak value and the first peak value, is greater than or equal to a first difference value, the peak detector ignores a first threshold, and decides the first peak value after confirming that a digital value corresponding to the next peak value has exceeded a second threshold.

Abstract: A peak detecting unit includes: a judging section, judging whether a current digital value produced by an AD converter has changed from a prior digital value; a holding section, being capable of holding the digital value output from the AD converter as an extreme value and its position information; and an updating section which, when the current digital value has changed from the prior digital value, updating the extreme value and its position information held in the holding section with the current digital value as a current extreme value and its position information, or when the current digital value matches the prior digital value, acquiring the intermediate position between the position of the current digital value and the position of the prior digital value as a current extreme value position, holding the matching digital value as a current extreme value, and updating the position information with the intermediate position information.

Abstract: The adhesive composition according to the invention of the present application contains a block copolymer (a) having a block mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, a tackifier (b) and an oil (c), in which the block copolymer (a) contains a partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1), the partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1) has a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a conjugated diene monomer unit, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer unit is 10 mass % or more and 19 mass % or less based on 100 mass % of the partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1), and the hydrogenation ratio of double bonds contained in the conjugated diene monomer unit in the partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1) is 15 mol % or more and less than 80 mol % based on the total (amount) of double bonds before hydrogenation.

Abstract: A block copolymer composition including: 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (a), and 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (b), wherein the component (a) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit, wherein the block copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or higher and 150,000 or lower; and the component (b) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit.

Abstract: The card reader includes a peak detector that detects a peak point of a reproduced signal according to a threshold. The peak detector applies, to a first peak value to be determined, a second peak value immediately before the first peak value, a third peak value, which is the second preceding peak value with respect to the first peak value, and a next peak value. When a difference between a first intermediate value, which is a value between the third peak value and the second peak value, and a second intermediate value, which is a value between the second peak value and the first peak value, is greater than or equal to a first difference value, the peak detector ignores a first threshold, and decides the first peak value after confirming that a digital value corresponding to the next peak value has exceeded a second threshold.

Abstract: The adhesive composition according to the invention of the present application contains a block copolymer (a) having a block mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, a tackifier (b) and an oil (c), in which the block copolymer (a) contains a partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1), the partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1) has a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a conjugated diene monomer unit, the content of the vinyl aromatic monomer unit is 10 mass % or more and 19 mass % or less based on 100 mass % of the partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1), and the hydrogenation ratio of double bonds contained in the conjugated diene monomer unit in the partially hydrogenated block copolymer (a-1) is 15 mol % or more and less than 80 mol % based on the total (amount) of double bonds before hydrogenation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, wherein the polymer has a polymer block (A) comprising principally vinyl aromatic monomer units, and a polymer block (B) comprising conjugated diene monomer units and vinyl aromatic monomer units, and has a Bragg spacing of 27 nm or larger and 50 nm or smaller.

Abstract: An asphalt composition containing 0.5 parts by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less of a block copolymer and 100 parts by mass of an asphalt; the block copolymer comprising a polymer block (A) mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, and a copolymer block (B) containing a conjugated diene monomer unit and a vinyl aromatic monomer unit.

Abstract: The polymer according to the present invention is a polymer containing a conjugated diene monomer unit and a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, wherein the polymer has a polymer block (A) containing the vinyl aromatic monomer unit as a main component and a polymer block (B) containing the conjugated diene monomer unit and the vinyl aromatic monomer unit, a content of the polymer block (A) is 10% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less, a bulk density of the polymer is 0.05 g/mL or more and 0.45 g/mL or less, and a specific surface area of the polymer is 0.10 m2/g or more and 0.60 m2/g or less.

Abstract: A block copolymer composition including: 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (a), and 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (b), wherein the component (a) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit, wherein the block copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or higher and 150,000 or lower; and the component (b) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit.

Abstract: A card reader may include a recording and reproducing means to perform reading of data or writing of data, a first cable configured to transmit a data signal outputted from the recording and reproducing means or a data signal inputted into the recording and reproducing means, a circuit board in a flat plate shape for controlling the card reader, a connector mounted on the circuit board and connected with one end side of the first cable, and a second cable connected with the circuit board and configured to transmit a control signal for controlling the card reader. A width of the second cable is wider than a width of the first cable, and the second cable is connected with the circuit board so as to cover a connected portion of the first cable with the connector.

Abstract: There is provided a crumb of a block copolymer, which is excellent in transportability and, when used for a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, is capable of forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition excellent in solubility, the low-melt viscosity property, the low-odor property, and the balance among these properties. The present invention relates to a crumb of a block copolymer, comprising at least one polymer block comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon monomer unit as a primary component and at least one polymer block comprising a conjugated diene compound monomer unit as a primary component, having a weight-average molecular weight of 20,000 to 1,000,000, and having a specific surface area, a cumulative pore volume of pores having a pore radius of 1 ?m to 100 ?m, and an average pore radius that are in respective predetermined ranges.

Abstract: An asphalt composition containing 0.5 parts by mass or more and 20 parts by mass or less of a block copolymer and 100 parts by mass of an asphalt; the block copolymer comprising a polymer block (A) mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, and a copolymer block (B) containing a conjugated diene monomer unit and a vinyl aromatic monomer unit.

Abstract: A card reader may include a recording and reproducing means to perform reading of data or writing of data, a first cable configured to transmit a data signal outputted from the recording and reproducing means or a data signal inputted into the recording and reproducing means, a circuit board in a flat plate shape for controlling the card reader, a connector mounted on the circuit board and connected with one end side of the first cable, and a second cable connected with the circuit board and configured to transmit a control signal for controlling the card reader. A width of the second cable is wider than a width of the first cable, and the second cable is connected with the circuit board so as to cover a connected portion of the first cable with the connector.

Abstract: A block copolymer composition including: 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (a), and 10% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less of a component (b), wherein the component (a) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit, wherein the block copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or higher and 150,000 or lower; and the component (b) is a block copolymer containing a polymer block (A) primarily including a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and a polymer block (B) primarily including a conjugated diene monomer unit.

Abstract: The polymer according to the present invention is a polymer containing a conjugated diene monomer unit and a vinyl aromatic monomer unit, wherein the polymer has a polymer block (A) containing the vinyl aromatic monomer unit as a main component and a polymer block (B) containing the conjugated diene monomer unit and the vinyl aromatic monomer unit, a content of the polymer block (A) is 10% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less, a bulk density of the polymer is 0.05 g/mL or more and 0.45 g/mL or less, and a specific surface area of the polymer is 0.10 m2/g or more and 0.60 m2/g or less.

Abstract: An information reproduction device for use with a magnetic recording medium storing information may include an analog/digital (AD) converter structured to convert an analog signal, which is reproduced from the information recorded in the magnetic recording medium, into a digital signal; a peak detecting unit structured to detect a peak point of the reproduced signal, from the digital signal, according to a threshold as a judgment level in accordance with an output of the AD converter; and an information generating unit for generating structured to generate a rectangular waveform signal of the reproduced signal, waveform-shaped according to interval information of peak points detected by the peak detecting unit.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a block copolymer composition for a viscous adhesive, which will be a viscous adhesive composition excellent in balance of the adhesive properties such as tack strength and tackiness, having a low melt viscosity, and excellent solubility, coating properties, ejection stability, and surface skin quality. The block copolymer composition for a viscous adhesive having: a component (a) in an amount of 50 mass % or more and 90 mass % or less; and a component (b) in an amount of 10 mass % or more and 50 mass % or less; a content of the vinyl aromatic monomer unit being 25 to 50 mass %; a viscosity of the 15 mass % toluene solution being 10 to 40 mPa·s; and a number average molecular weight ratio of the component (b) to the component (a) being 2.0 to 4.0.