Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a resin composition for an optical semiconductor from a powdery material and a liquid material using a kneader having a first supply port and a secondary supply port disposed at a downstream side of the first supply port, the process including: a step of supplying the powdery material into the kneader from the first supply port and delivering the powdery material to a second supply port side by the kneader at a temperature at which the powdery material is not melted; a step of melting the powdery material by heating and simultaneously supplying the liquid material from the second supply port under a pressure higher than a pressure in the kneader to knead a melted product of the powdery material and the liquid material; and a step of further kneading a kneaded product thereof while cooling.

Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which can adequately perform the control of a fuel injection amount even when an abnormality, a disconnection or the like of a fuel pressure sensor occurs and thereby accurate fuel pressure information is not able to be obtained. A fuel injection valve (26) is provided which is capable of directly injecting fuel into a cylinder. If a target fuel injection amount is smaller than a minimum fuel injection amount that is minimum and is capable of injecting during one opening and closing operation of the fuel injection valve (26), the start timing of fuel injection is set within a period in which an exhaust valve is opened during an exhaust stroke.

Abstract: The present invention provides a microsphere with a slow-release period from about two weeks to about four weeks following administration, to enable a higher content of a drug to be included, to suppress an initial burst of the drug, and to maintain an optimal, effective blood concentration during the slow-release period. In a microsphere containing a drug and polylactic acid/glycolic acid (PLGA) copolymer, the amount of PLGA copolymer per part by weight of the drug is from about 3 to about 10 parts by weight; the average particle size of the microsphere is from about 20 to about 50 ?m; and (3) the PLGA copolymer has a weight-average molecular weight from about 10,000 to about 50,000 and a PLGA compositional ratio from about 75/25 to about 50/50. The microsphere promotes the production of various endogenous repair factors useful against various tissue disorders.

Abstract: In fuse program circuits, fuse element FS is implemented using metal interconnect at third or higher layer of multilayer metal interconnect. In each fuse program circuit, program information and fuse select information are sequentially transferred using a scan flip-flops, and fuses are selectively and electrically blown one by one. The fuse program circuit provided with fuse elements that can be programmed even after packaging is implemented with low power consumption and a low occupation area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for an optical semiconductor device, including the following ingredients (A) to (E): (A) an epoxy resin; (B) an acid anhydride curing agent; (C) a curing accelerator; (D) a specific silicone resin; and (E) a specific alcohol compound.

Abstract: A catalyst degradation determining method includes the steps of: controlling an upstream-of-catalyst air-fuel ratio occurring upstream of a first catalyst to an air-fuel ratio that is rich of a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio so that first and second catalysts store oxygen up to a maximum storage amount of oxygen. The method then includes the steps of controlling the upstream-of-catalyst air-fuel ratio to a first lean air-fuel ratio until an output of a downstream-of-first-catalyst sensor indicates a lean air-fuel ratio, and then to a second lean air-fuel ratio and that has a value that is determined in accordance with an oxidizing-reducing capability index value, until a time point when an output of a downstream-of-second-catalyst air-fuel ratio sensor indicates an air-fuel ratio that is lean.

Abstract: In a hydraulic actuator control device, a changing tendency of responsiveness of a hydraulic actuator to changes in the oil control valve (OCV) drive duty of a virtual OCV is stored as model control characteristics. The ratio of an actual OCV dead zone width to a virtual OCV dead zone width is calculated as an OCV variation correction coefficient. A basic control amount is calculated based on a deviation between an operating amount and a target operating amount of the hydraulic actuator. An actual OCV in-dead-zone control amount is obtained by correcting a virtual OCV in-dead-zone control amount with the OCV variation correction coefficient, and an actual OCV out-of-dead-zone control amount is calculated based on a virtual OCV out-of-dead-zone control amount. The actual OCV control amount is the sum of the actual OCV in-dead-zone control amount and the actual OCV out-of-dead-zone control amount.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition for optical use including the following ingredients (A) to (C): (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a curing agent; and (C) an inorganic filler including (c1) an inorganic filler having a refractive index larger than a refractive index of a cured product obtained from the ingredients of the epoxy resin composition excluding the (C) inorganic filler and (c2) an inorganic filler having a refractive index smaller than the refractive index of the cured product obtained from the ingredients of the epoxy resin composition excluding the (C) inorganic filler.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a thermosetting resin composition for optical-semiconductor element encapsulation, the thermosetting resin composition including the following ingredients (A) to (D): (A) an epoxy group-containing siloxane compound represented by the following general formula (1) in which R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 is a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and may contain an oxygen atom for ether formulation or ester formulation inside thereof, and n is an integer of 0 to 20; (B) an acid anhydride curing agent; (C) a thermally condensable organosiloxane; and (D) a curing accelerator.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a microsphere which has a slow-release period of from about two weeks to about four weeks following administration, enables a higher content of a drug to be included, suppresses an initial burst of the drug, and enables the drug to be maintained at an optimal, effective blood concentration during the slow-release period. In a microsphere containing a drug and PLGA, the above problems can be resolved by setting: (1) the amount of lactic acid/glycolic acid copolymer per part by weight of the drug to from about 3 to about 10 parts by weight; (2) the microsphere to an average particle size of from about 20 to about 50 ?m; and (3) the lactic acid/glycolic acid copolymer to a weight-average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to about 50,000 and to a lactic acid/glycolic acid compositional ratio of from about 75/25 to about 50/50.

Abstract: In fuse program circuits, fuse element FS is implemented using metal interconnect at third or higher layer of multilayer metal interconnect. In each fuse program circuit, program information and fuse select information are sequentially transferred using a scan flip-flops, and fuses are selectively and electrically blown one by one. The fuse program circuit provided with fuse elements that can be programmed even after packaging is implemented with low power consumption and a low occupation area.

Abstract: In fuse program circuits, fuse element FS is implemented using metal interconnect at third or higher layer of multilayer metal interconnect. In each fuse program circuit, program information and fuse select information are sequentially transferred using a scan flip-flops, and fuses are selectively and electrically blown one by one. The fuse program circuit provided with fuse elements that can be programmed even after packaging is implemented with low power consumption and a low occupation area.

Abstract: In a hydraulic actuator control device, a changing tendency of responsiveness of a hydraulic actuator to changes in the oil control valve (OCV) drive duty of a virtual OCV is stored as model control characteristics. The ratio of an actual OCV dead zone width to a virtual OCV dead zone width is calculated as an OCV variation correction coefficient. A basic control amount is calculated based on a deviation between an operating amount and a target operating amount of the hydraulic actuator. An actual OCV in-dead-zone control amount is obtained by correcting a virtual OCV in-dead-zone control amount with the OCV variation correction coefficient, and an actual OCV out-of-dead-zone control amount is calculated based on a virtual OCV out-of-dead-zone control amount. The actual OCV control amount is the sum of the actual OCV in-dead-zone control amount and the actual OCV out-of-dead-zone control amount.

Abstract: An electronic controller integrates a rate of progress dK of thermal degradation of exhaust purifying catalyst at every predetermined time period, to calculate degree of thermal degradation K of the exhaust purifying catalyst, when the state of thermal degradation of the exhaust purifying catalyst is to be detected. By comparing the degree of thermal degradation K with a defect determining value S, whether the exhaust purifying catalyst is defective because of thermal degradation or not is determined. In calculating the degree of thermal degradation K, the electronic controller calculates the rate of progress dK of thermal degradation in the predetermined time period based on the integrated value of rate of progress dK of thermal degradation up to the last time (degree of thermal degradation K) and on the temperature T of exhaust purifying catalyst at that time, and adds the same to the integrated value up to the last time.

Abstract: An evaporative fuel treatment apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes: a communication portion that communicates a plurality of branch passages with one another at positions downstream of the plurality of throttle valves; a purge passage that introduces purge gas, containing evaporative fuel, to the communication portion; an air supply passage that flows dilution air, which is used to dilute the evaporative fuel, into the purge passage; a first flow rate changing portion that is provided in the air supply passage and that is able to change the inflow of the dilution air; and a control unit that controls the first flow rate changing portion.

Abstract: To provide an apparatus for evaluating the deterioration condition of a catalyst of an internal combustion engine that can improve the accuracy of an evaluation of the deterioration condition of a catalyst and can suppress a worsening of emissions. The apparatus forcedly sets the air/fuel ratio upstream of a catalyst provided in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine at a rich condition or a lean condition on the basis of a detected value of a sub O2 sensor downstream of the catalyst in the internal combustion engine and evaluates the deterioration condition of the catalyst.

Abstract: A fuel pump control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of fuel pumps that discharge fuel so that the discharged fuel is supplied to the internal combustion engine; and a controller that determines whether to supply the fuel discharged from one of the plurality of fuel pumps to the internal combustion engine, or to supply all the fuel discharged from the plurality of fuel pumps together to the internal combustion engine, based on the operating condition of the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: In fuse program circuits, fuse element FS is implemented using metal interconnect at third or higher layer of multilayer metal interconnect. In each fuse program circuit, program information and fuse select information are sequentially transferred using a scan flip-flops, and fuses are selectively and electrically blown one by one. The fuse program circuit provided with fuse elements that can be programmed even after packaging is implemented with low power consumption and a low occupation area.

Abstract: During sulfur release control in an internal combustion engine, a rich period and a lean period are alternately repeated. The air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas is controlled toward a target air-fuel ratio (14.3) by adding fuel from a fuel adding valve in the rich period. An ECU determines whether the actual air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor has reached a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio each time the rich period ends at which addition of fuel from the fuel adding valve is stopped. A counter counts the number of times the ECU has determined that the actual air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas has not reached the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. When the value of the counter becomes greater than or equal to a permissible value, the ECU determines that there is an abnormality in the sulfur release control.

Abstract: A method for producing an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, which does not cause void generation and the like and is excellent in reliability. A method for producing an epoxy resin composition for semiconductor encapsulation, which contains the following components (A) to (C): (A) an epoxy resin, (B) a phenol resin, and (C) a hardening accelerator, which comprises mixing the whole or a part of the components excluding the component (A) among the components containing the components (A) to (C) in advance under a reduced pressure of from 1.333 to 66.65 kPa and under a heating condition of from 100 to 230° C., and then mixing the component (A) and remaining components with the resulting mixture.