Abstract: An order support apparatus enables ordering products based on consideration of impact of manufacturing the products on environment. The order support apparatus includes a request information acquisition unit, a candidate extraction unit, a manufacturing condition generation unit, and an output unit. The request information acquisition unit acquires request information of a user relating to a product and manufacture of the product. The candidate extraction unit extracts, based on the request information acquired by the request information acquisition unit, candidate sections capable of manufacturing the product, from predetermined manufacturing sections. The manufacturing condition generation unit generates manufacturing conditions of the candidate sections, including environmental indicators relating to impacts of the candidate sections extracted by the candidate extraction unit on environment. The output unit outputs the manufacturing conditions generated by the manufacturing condition generation unit.

Abstract: Provided are an insole designing apparatus, an insole designing method, and a program for use in designing an insole replaceable with and used instead of an insole currently used in footwear. The insole designing apparatus designs the insole of the footwear. The insole designing apparatus includes: an input device that receives an input of data; a processing circuitry that calculates design data of the insole based on the data received by the input device; and an output device that outputs the design data calculated by the processing circuitry. The data received by the input device at least includes first data associated with a user's foot shape and second data associated with an inside of the footwear. The processing circuitry calculates the design data based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: An upper is used for a shoe. The upper includes a main body portion located on an upper side of the shoe and a bottom surface portion connected to the main body portion at at least a part of an outer periphery of the main body portion. The main body portion is seamless and in a shape having an inner periphery on an inner side of the outer periphery. The shoe includes the upper that includes the main body portion that is seamless and is in the shape having the inner periphery on the inner side of the outer periphery and a sole provided on a bottom surface portion side of the upper.

Abstract: An upper is used for a shoe. The upper includes a main body portion located on an upper side of the shoe and a bottom surface portion connected to the main body portion at at least a part of an outer periphery of the main body portion. The main body portion is seamless and in a shape having an inner periphery on an inner side of the outer periphery. The shoe includes the upper that includes the main body portion that is seamless and is in the shape having the inner periphery on the inner side of the outer periphery and a sole provided on a bottom surface portion side of the upper.

Abstract: Provided is a garment made of a stretchable fabric and having an opening. The opening has a structure in which a fabric edge is folded back, and the fabric edge is fastened to a main body of the fabric with adhesives, a part of the opening is formed with a pattern in which curvature of the opening changes, and a row of the adhesives that are applied on a side closest to the edge of the fabric is applied within 2 mm from the edge of the fabric, and a difference between an average of spacings between adjacent adhesives applied in a row in a 3-cm section of a portion having the largest curvature radius at the opening and an average of spacings between adjacent adhesives applied in a row in a 3-cm section of a portion having a smaller curvature radius at the opening is within 15%.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first input to which an input signal is input; a second input to which a reference signal is input; and a comparison stage which includes a current source connected to a first potential and first and second current path parts connected between the current source and a second potential different from the first potential and performing a comparison operation in response to the input signal and the reference signal, wherein the first and second current path parts respectively include first and second input circuits which are connected to the current source and first and second load circuits which are connected between the second potential and the first and second input circuits, wherein the first input circuit includes a first signal transistor and a first reference transistor, and wherein the second input circuit includes a second signal transistor and a second reference transistor.

Abstract: A differential amplifier includes a first input terminal, second input terminals, output terminals, differential amplification circuits, and a current source circuit. The first input terminal is one of an inverting input terminal and a non-inverting input terminal. Each of the second input terminals is another of the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting input terminal. The output terminals output voltages respectively corresponding to the second input terminals. The differential amplification circuits are connected to the first input terminal and the second input terminals and are provided corresponding to the second input terminals. The current source circuit is connected to the differential amplification circuits. Each of the differential amplification circuits outputs an output voltage corresponding to a combination of a voltage inputted to the first input terminal and a voltage inputted to one of the second input terminals from a corresponding one of the output terminals.

Abstract: Provided is an injection device and an injection control method which are capable of preventing a drooping phenomenon from an injection nozzle even during high cycle molding, and capable of appropriately plasticizing and molding a resin having poor thermal stability. An injection device (10) of the disclosure includes: an injection cylinder (30) which accumulates a molding material and has an injection nozzle (33) at the front; an injection plunger (31) which is moved backward in the injection cylinder (30); an injection plunger driving device (50, 150) which moves the injection plunger (31) backward; and an injection controller (60, 160). The injection controller (60, 160) retreats the injection plunger (31) by the injection plunger driving device (50, 150) to perform metering in a plastication metering step of metering the molding material supplied into the injection cylinder (30).

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first input to which an input signal is input; a second input to which a reference signal is input; and a comparison stage which includes a current source connected to a first potential and first and second current path parts connected between the current source and a second potential different from the first potential and performing a comparison operation in response to the input signal and the reference signal, wherein the first and second current path parts respectively include first and second input circuits which are connected to the current source and first and second load circuits which are connected between the second potential and the first and second input circuits, wherein the first input circuit includes a first signal transistor and a first reference transistor, and wherein the second input circuit includes a second signal transistor and a second reference transistor.

Abstract: Provided is an injection device and an injection control method which are capable of preventing a drooping phenomenon from an injection nozzle even during high cycle molding, and capable of appropriately plasticizing and molding a resin having poor thermal stability. An injection device (10) of the disclosure includes: an injection cylinder (30) which accumulates a molding material and has an injection nozzle (33) at the front; an injection plunger (31) which is moved backward in the injection cylinder (30); an injection plunger driving device (50, 150) which moves the injection plunger (31) backward; and an injection controller (60, 160). The injection controller (60, 160) retreats the injection plunger (31) by the injection plunger driving device (50, 150) to perform metering in a plastication metering step of metering the molding material supplied into the injection cylinder (30).

Abstract: Disclosed are a branched poly(arylene sulfide) resin having a melt viscosity measured at a temperature of 310° C. and a shear rate of 1200 sec?1 of 65 to 450 Pa·s, a maximum draft ratio of 6500 or more, and a degree of whiteness of 65 or more; moreover, a branched poly(arylene sulfide) resin preferably having a dependence of melt viscosity on shear rate of 1.4 to 2.6 or a melt stability of 0.85 to 1.30; and a method for producing a branched poly(arylene sulfide) resin, wherein a sulfur source and a dihaloaromatic compound are caused to undergo a polymerization reaction at a temperature of 170 to 290° C. in the organic amide solvent in the presence of a polyhaloaromatic compound in an amount of 0.0001 to 0.01 mol per mol of the fed sulfur source.

Abstract: Disclosed are a branched poly(arylene sulfide) resin having a melt viscosity measured at a temperature of 310° C. and a shear rate of 1200 sec?1 of 65 to 450 Pa·s, a maximum draft ratio of 6500 or more, and a degree of whiteness of 65 or more; moreover, a branched poly(arylene sulfide) resin preferably having a dependence of melt viscosity on shear rate of 1.4 to 2.6 or a melt stability of 0.85 to 1.30; and a method for producing a branched poly(arylene sulfide) resin, wherein a sulfur source and a dihaloaromatic compound are caused to undergo a polymerization reaction at a temperature of 170 to 290° C. in the organic amide solvent in the presence of a polyhaloaromatic compound in an amount of 0.0001 to 0.01 mol per mol of the fed sulfur source.

Abstract: A composition is formed by blending a vinylidene fluoride resin having a relatively high molecular weight and an improved crystallinity represented by a difference Tm2?Tc of at most 32° C. between an inherent melting point Tm2 and a crystallization temperature Tc of the resin with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, and the composition is melt-extruded into a hollow fiber-form. The hollow fiber-form extrudate is then cooled to be solidified from an outside thereof by introduction into cooling medium and subjected to extraction of the plasticizer and stretching, thereby forming a hollow fiber porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin characterized by co-presence of crystal oriented portion and crystal non-oriented portion recognizable by X-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: Monofilaments comprising resin compositions which contain 1% by mass or more of a comonomer component (for example, hexafluoropropylene), have an intrinsic viscosity of 1.3 dl/g or more and a melting point of 165° C. or higher and contain a PVDF-based resin. Owing to the above composition and physical properties, the crystallinity and elastic modulus of the PVDF-based resin are altered. As a result, an appropriate flexibility can be imparted to the monofilaments while preventing deterioration in the mechanical properties.

Abstract: A hollow-fiber porous membrane, comprising a hollow fiber-form porous membrane in a network texture of vinylidene fluoride resin showing a pore size distribution in a direction of its membrane thickness including an outer surface-average pore size P1 as measured by a scanning electron microscope and a membrane layer-average pore size P2 as measured by half-dry method giving a ratio P1/P2 of at least 2.5. The hollow-fiber porous membrane is excellent in long-term water filtration performance including efficiency of regeneration by air scrubbing. The hollow-fiber porous membrane is produced through a process, wherein a mixture of vinylidene fluoride resin, a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, is melt-extruded in a hollow-fiber film and cooled and formed into a solidified film within a cooling medium containing at least a certain proportion of a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin.

Abstract: A vinylidene fluoride resin having a weight-average molecular weight as relatively high as 300,000 or higher is mixed with a plasticizer and good solvent for the vinylidene fluoride resin to obtain a composition. A molten extrudate of the composition in a hollow-fiber membrane state is contacted, on its outer side, with a cooling liquid inert to the vinylidene fluoride resin to thereby cool the extrudate. During the solidification, the vinylidene fluoride resin is moderately and mildly crystallized. Thus, a hollow-fiber porous vinylidene fluoride resin membrane is produced which has a high crystallinity represented by an enthalpy of crystal melting 58 J/g or higher. The hollow-fiber porous membrane obtained is excellent in mechanical strength represented by tensile strength and elongation at break and in chemical resistance. It is effectively used as a water microfiltration membrane.

Abstract: A porous membrane for water treatment of the present invention is made of a resin composition containing 100 parts by weight of a polyvinylidene fluoride based resin, and 5 to 13 parts by weight of a polyvinyl alcohol based polymer having a degree of saponification of 10 to 80 mol %. The porous membrane has a permeation wetting tension of 38 to 72 mN/m, and a tensile strength of 7 to 20 MPa, and thus is characterized by having the excellent mechanical strength and wettability. This is a porous membrane for water treatment essentially containing the polyvinylidene fluoride based resin, which allows water treatment to be highly efficiently performed on raw water (river water, industrial waste water, and the like), in particular.

Abstract: A composition is formed by blending a vinylidene fluoride resin having a relatively high molecular weight and an improved crystallinity represented by a difference Tm2?Tc of at most 32° C. between an inherent melting point Tm2 and a crystallization temperature Tc of the resin with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, and the composition is melt-extruded into a hollow fiber-form. The hollow fiber-form extrudate is then cooled to be solidified from an outside thereof by introduction into cooling medium and subjected to extraction of the plasticizer and stretching, thereby forming a hollow fiber porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin characterized by co-presence of crystal oriented portion and crystal non-oriented portion recognizable by X-ray diffraction method.

Abstract: A hollow fiber-form porous membrane of vinylidene fluoride resin having a high crystallinity as represented by a crystal melting enthalpy of at least 58 J/g is produced by forming a composition of a vinylidene fluoride resin having a relatively high weight-average molecular weight of at least 3×105 blended with a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, melt-extruding the composition into a hollow fiber-form film, and solidifying the film by cooling it from an outside thereof by contact with a cooling liquid inert to vinylidene fluoride resin while crystallizing the vinylidene fluoride resin at an appropriately moderate speed. The resultant hollow fiber-form porous membrane is excellent in mechanical strength represented by tensile strength and elongation at break, and also excellent in chemical resistance, thus being effectively used as a water micro-filtration membrane.

Abstract: Monofilaments comprising resin compositions which contain 1% by mass or more of a comonomer component (for example, hexafluoropropylene), have an intrinsic viscosity of 1.3 dl/g or more and a melting point of 165° C. or higher and contain a PVDF-based resin. Owing to the above composition and physical properties, the crystallinity and elastic modulus of the PVDF-based resin are altered. As a result, an appropriate flexibility can be imparted to the monofilaments while preventing deterioration in the mechanical properties.