Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a water-absorbent polymer composite comprising the steps of contacting a droplet containing a solvent and said polymerizable monomer before polymerization and/or under polymerization with first fibers fed through a first supply port of said reactor in a gas phase, proceeding with polymerization of said polymerizable monomer, contacting the resultant droplet containing said solvent, the polymerizable monomer under polymerization and said first fibers with second fibers fed through a second supply port of said reactor in a gas phase, and proceeding with further polymerization of said polymerizable monomer to form said water-absorbent polymer composite.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a water-absorbent polymer composite comprising the steps of contacting said polymerizable monomer with one or more fibers having a contact angle against water of 0 to 60 degrees in a gas phase, and proceeding with the polymerization of said monomers to form the water-absorbent polymer composite. The method can provide a water-absorbent polymer composite characterized in that the fibers are stably fixed to the water-absorbent polymer not only in dry but also in wet through water absorption for swelling, the water-absorbent polymer content can be enlarged relative to the fibers, the polymer can be uniformly fixed to the fibers, the composite is flexible and can be thinned, and it can be opened by itself and can be uniformly mixed with any other material.

Abstract: The invention saves resources and energy. A cleaning/fluid-feeding head integrates a cleaning head portion and a fluid-feeding head portion. The cleaning head portion includes an organic substance cleaning unit, an inorganic substance cleaning unit, a rinsing unit and a drying unit. The organic substance cleaning unit, inorganic substance cleaning unit and rinsing unit selectively clean pattern forming regions on a substrate by feeding thereto a first cleaning fluid, second cleaning fluid and pure water, respectively. The drying unit dries the rinsed pattern forming regions by blowing hot air thereonto. The fluid-feeding head portion selectively feeds a liquid pattern forming material to the cleaned pattern forming regions.

Abstract: The invention saves resources and energy. A cleaning/fluid-feeding head integrates a cleaning head portion and a fluid-feeding head portion. The cleaning head portion includes an organic substance cleaning unit, an inorganic substance cleaning unit, a rinsing unit and a drying unit. The organic substance cleaning unit, inorganic substance cleaning unit and rinsing unit selectively clean pattern forming regions on a substrate by feeding thereto a first cleaning fluid, second cleaning fluid and pure water, respectively. The drying unit dries the rinsed pattern forming regions by blowing hot air thereonto. The fluid-feeding head portion selectively feeds a liquid pattern forming material to the cleaned pattern forming regions.

Abstract: A liner for a patch used for covering the surface of a base agent layer of the patch is provided. In the liner of the invention, a tear line portion for dividing and peeling the liner off the base agent layer is provided at a predetermined location, and the thickness of the tear line portion is made thinner than a generally average thickness of the liner. Therefore, when the patch is about to be used, the liner can easily be torn at the tear line portion and peeled off the base agent layer.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic tape apparatus which can easily and rapidly restore data and has improved availability. The magnetic tape apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic tape drives, and a control unit for reading and writing information from/in the magnetic tape drives by commands from a host computer. The control unit has a function for storing the same data in the plurality of magnetic tape drives while duplicating the data. The control unit includes a positioning unit for, when the duplicated data is read from one magnetic tape drive to complete the read, performing positioning such that a read position of another magnetic tape drive in which the same data is stored is advanced by a length corresponding to an amount of data read from one magnetic tape drive, and a read continuing unit for continuing read of data from the other magnetic tape drive when data is unsuccessfully read from one magnetic tape drive.

Abstract: A polymerization method in which a first liquid and a second liquid are mixed in a gas phase and polymerized in the form of droplets is disclosed, wherein a polymerizable monomer and a polymerization initiator are each contained in at least one of the first liquid and the second liquid, and at least one of the first liquid and the second liquid is injected in a spatially expanding film shape. By employing the polymerization method of this invention, high-quality polymer can be efficiently produced in large quantity by the droplet polymerization even using a polymerizable monomer with a rapid reaction rate.

Abstract: This invention discloses a continuous production method of water-absorbing composite which comprises a complexation step for producing a particle-substrate composite by dropwisely supplying an aqueous solution of polymerizable monomers consisting mainly of an unsaturated carboxylic acid where 20% or more of the carboxyl groups in the unsaturated acid is neutralized, while allowing polymerization to proceed in the droplets, onto a fibrous substrate fed to the drop point to allow the incompletely polymerized polymer particles to adhere thereon, and by completing the polymerization thereafter; and a surface crosslinking step for reacting the composite with a crosslinking agent, having two or more functional groups capable of reacting with carboxyl group and/or carboxylate group, in the presence of 1 to 100 weight parts of water per 100 weight parts of polymer particles derived from the polymerizable monomer contained in the composite.

Abstract: This invention discloses a continuous production method of water-absorbing composite which comprises a complexation step for producing a particle-substrate composite by dropwisely supplying an aqueous solution of polymerizable monomers consisting mainly of an unsaturated carboxylic acid where 20% or more of the carboxyl groups in the unsaturated acid is neutralized, while allowing polymerization to proceed in the droplets, onto a fibrous substrate fed to the drop point to allow the incompletely polymerized polymer particles to adhere thereon, and by completing the polymerization thereafter; and a surface crosslinking step for reacting the composite with a crosslinking agent, having two or more functional groups capable of reacting with carboxyl group and/or carboxylate group, in the presence of 1 to 100 weight parts of water per 100 weight parts of polymer particles derived from the polymerizable monomer contained in the composite.

Abstract: A continuous-treatment apparatus is provided which subjects a surface of an object, which is targeted for treatments, to continuous plural types of treatments, and is provided with an object carrier, which holds the object and carries the object along a carrying direction, and plural types of treatment units, which are arranged side by side along the carrying direction of the object and subject the object to sequential different treatments at atmospheric pressure or at a pressure near atmospheric pressure. The combination of the plural types of treatment units may be changed at will and any desired type of treatment unit may be added.

Abstract: A pattern material supply unit (300) has a shower head (310) for producing a particle mist from the liquid pattern material (312) and discharging the mist. A process stage (318) on which the workpiece (20) is placed is disposed below the shower head (310). A hydrophobic processed mask with pattern forming openings is disposed on the surface of the workpiece (20). A voltage is applied by a dc power source (328) to the workpiece (20) by way of the intervening process stage (318) so that particles of the liquid pattern material (312) are attracted thereto by static attraction. The liquid pattern material adhering to the mask surface fills in the pattern forming openings disposed in the mask as a result of the process stage (318) rotating, and the liquid pattern material can be heated and solidified by an internal heater (326).

Abstract: An object is to provide a mask formation method, which can curtail a manufacturing cost.

Abstract: [Object] To reduce the amounts of cleaning liquids and rinse liquid used, as well as the energy consumption.

Abstract: A cleaning/fluid-feeding head 22 integrates a cleaning head portion 60 and a fluid-feeding head portion 70. The cleaning head portion 60 includes an organic substance cleaning unit 62, an inorganic substance cleaning unit 64, a rinsing unit 66 and a drying unit 68. The organic substance cleaning unit 62, inorganic substance cleaning unit 64 and rinsing unit 66 selectively clean pattern forming regions 108 on a substrate 10 by feeding thereto a first cleaning fluid 74, second cleaning fluid 80 and pure water 88, respectively. The drying unit 68 dries the rinsed pattern forming regions 108 by blowing hot air 96 thereonto. The fluid-feeding head portion 70 selectively feeds a liquid pattern forming material 102 to the cleaned pattern forming regions 108.

Abstract: The invention intends to provide an etching method in which a bank 12 is formed to a member to be processed 10, and thereby a precise etching can be applied to a predetermined position, and apparatus for the method.

Abstract: In a system using a looped interface, a faulty device and a disconnected location respectively causing a link fault are specified. Plural devices 200 are connected to the looped interface 120 and a port bypass circuit 210 detaches the faulty device from the looped interface. A port bypass circuit controller 100 controls port bypass circuits and sequentially detaches a device from the looped interface when a link of the looped interface is disconnected. It is checked whether a loop fault continues or not after the device is detached. The operation is repeated by the number of the devices to acquire the result of the check and a device causing the loop fault is specified based upon the result of the check.

Abstract: There is provided a high-availability duplexing or multiplexing information recorder where a process is not interrupted by a trouble of a drive or a medium. The information recorder is directed to write data instructed to be written from a host system in recording media of at least two drives. The recorder is configured to: detect an abnormality of each drive itself and an abnormality of the recording medium of each drive; cancel the writing of the data in the recording medium of the drive where an abnormality is detected or the drive having the recording medium where an abnormality is detected; and continue the writing of the data in the recording medium of the following drive without notifying any abnormality to the host system, as long as there is at least one drive where any abnormality is not detected and which has the recording medium where any abnormality is not detected.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for solid bonding without using a bonding agent are provided. A surface of metal, glass, or other bond members 16a and 16b is fluorinated by exposure to a mixture of HF gas from a HF gas supply unit 24 and water vapor from a vapor generator 26 in a fluorination process section 12. The bond members 16a and 16b are then placed in contact at the fluorinated surface on table 36 in bonding process section 14. Argon is then introduced to bonding chamber 34. Pressure is then applied to the first bond member 16a and second bond member 16b by a cylinder 46, and heated to below the melting point by a heater 48, to bond the first and second bond members together.

Abstract: There is provided a magnetic tape apparatus which can easily and rapidly restore data and has improved availability. The magnetic tape apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic tape drives, and a control unit for reading and writing information from/in the magnetic tape drives by commands from a host computer. The control unit has a function for storing the same data in the plurality of magnetic tape drives while duplicating the data. The control unit includes a positioning unit for, when the duplicated data is read from one magnetic tape drive to complete the read, performing positioning such that a read position of another magnetic tape drive in which the same data is stored is advanced by a length corresponding to an amount of data read from one magnetic tape drive, and a read continuing unit for continuing read of data from the other magnetic tape drive when data is unsuccessfully read from one magnetic tape drive.

Abstract: In a method of copying data for connecting a host system with a plurality of devices through an interface, the method is for use in copying data between a plurality of devices based on a copy command produced in the host system, the copy command designates a copy source device and a copy destination device among a plurality of devices, at least one of the copy source device and the copy destination device is provided with data copy function to copy data between a plurality of devices by no way of the host system. A connected device management file which stores whether or not each of a plurality of devices has the data copy function is prepared in the host system. One of the copy source device and the copy destination device to have the data copy function with reference to the copy command and the connected device management file is selected to issue the copy command to the copy source device or the copy destination device which has the data copy function.