A polyester resin which is excellent in the color tone and the transparency, which has a low acetaldehyde content, and further, which is excellent also in the thermal stability and of which the increase in the acetaldehyde content during e.g. the melt molding is reduced, is provided. A polyester resin produced by polycondensing a dicarboxylic acid component containing terephthalic acid as the ...

An image pickup apparatus capable of performing dynamic assignment of an output image in a dynamic range according to a subject. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device (131) for picking up an image of a subject, a signal processing section (133) for generating a composite image having a relatively wider dynamic range than at least either of the dynamic ranges of a long-time...

The present invention allows usable information to be selected by comparing information regarding encoding with conditions regarding encoding processing. When delay modes, picture structures, and pulldown modes do not match each other between previous encoding time and re-encoding time, parameters are not reused. When they match and image frames do not match, a picture type is reused. When a bit r...

A base station ( 105 ) comprises a notification processor ( 117 ) to transmit notification information of calls of a call service to remote terminals. The call service can be a GSM Voice Group Call Service (VGCS). The notification processor ( 117 ) comprises a BCCH processor ( 303 ) which notifies active calls for the call service to remote terminals in a first set of allocated radio blocks ( 201,...

A reproduction apparatus and a content information reproduction method for simultaneous reproduction from two recording media and instantaneous audio switching. A frequency-division section and another frequency-division section each frequency-divide a master clock provided by an oscillation section at a predetermined frequency-division ratio so as to generate clocks. A hard disk uses the clocks c...

The present invention relates to a copper alloy and a copper alloy plate which are excellent in bending formability, shear stamping workability and stress relaxation resistance and which are suitable for use particularly as an automotive terminal, an automotive connector and the like, and also to a method for manufacturing such a copper alloy and such a copper alloy plate.

A host controller interface to manage the complexity of accessing mass storage that takes into account the special handling needs of various memory technologies such as polymer memories.

A positive photosensitive resin composition containing 100 parts by weight of a polyimide precursor (A) having a constituent unit represented by the formula (1), 15 to 25 parts by weight of a crosslinking agent (B) represented by the formula (2), and 2 to 5 parts by weight of a photosensitizer (C) generating acid upon irradiation of an actinic ray: wherein m is an integer of 1 or greater, and R is...

A terminal device and method of re-establishes a circuit switched call or a packet switched connection in a data network having at least a first access network and a second access network. A failure of the circuit switched call or the packet switched connection established via the first access network is detected at the terminal device and connection re-establishment is initiated via the second ac...

In an elevator apparatus, the operation of a car is controlled by an operation control portion. A speed of the car is monitored by an overspeed monitoring portion, which is separated from the operation control portion. The overspeed monitoring portion detects a position of the car and a speed of the car, and compares an overspeed, which has been set in accordance with the position of the car, with...

The present invention aims at providing a composite semipermeable membrane excellent in water permeability and salt-blocking rate, and including an extremely small amount of unreacted polyfunctional amine components in the membrane, and at providing a process for producing the composite semipermeable membrane. A composite semipermeable membrane having a skin layer formed on the surface of a porous...

A projection lens for a EUV microlithographic projection exposure apparatus comprises a diaphragm (BL) which is arranged at a distance (D) in front of a mirror (S 2 ) of the lens. The diaphragm (BL) has a non-round aperture with an edge contour that may be configured such two rays of a light bundle disposed symmetrically with respect to a chief ray are treated equally, i.e. either both rays pass t...

According to a picture coding method of the present invention, a coded picture identified by a picture number is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between picture numbers and reference indices for designating reference pictures and coefficients used for generation of predictive images are generated; a reference picture being used when motion co...

Methods and apparatus for high speed workpiece handling are provided. The method for workpiece handling includes removing a workpiece from a first cassette with a first robot, transferring the workpiece from the first robot directly to a second robot without transferring the workpiece to a transfer station, placing the workpiece on a workpiece holder at a processing station with the second robot, ...

[Problem] A drive control apparatus for an electric car as can correct a synchronizing frequency without employing beacons, is proposed. [Means for Resolution] Wheel-diameter correction information output means includes wheel-diameter information calculation means for calculating wheel-diameter calculation information expressive of a wheel diameter of an electric car, on the basis of two-phase cu...

The invention provides a compressor for use as a secondary compressor for an ethylene polymerization tubular reactor comprising a motor and at least two compressor frames, at least one of the compressor frames being coupled to the motor by means of a contoured diaphragm flexible coupling.

The present invention is directed to a process for preparing a polymer modified bituminous binder composition in the substantial absence of crosslinking agents by heating a bitumen component in a stirred tank to a temperature from 185 °C to 221 °C; adding a block copolymer composition to the bitumen component while the bitumen component is being stirred to form a homogeneous mixture of the bitumen...

A leader line of a voice coil from a conductive wire part is drawn out from a part between a diaphragm coupling part and a part disposed in the magnetic gap toward a frame in a non-contact state with a diaphragm. One end side of the second edge made of an elastic body is coupled to a part between a drawing part of the leader line on the voice coil and a part of the voice coil disposed in the magne...

The present invention provides a surface mounted semiconductor device 1 formed by cutting an assembly board together with cathode wiring patterns 8 and anode wiring patterns 10 arranged on the assembly board on which light-emitting elements are mounted. When the surface mounted semiconductor device 1 is mounted on a mounting board with the cutting plane (bonding surface) facing the mounting board,...

A method for the production of metal powders or metal hydride powders of the elements Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta and Cr is disclosed, whereby an oxide of the said elements is mixed with a reducing agent and said mixture, optionally with a hydrogen atmosphere (for the production of metal hydrides), is heated until the reduction reaction commences, the reaction product is quenched, then washed and dried....