Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Harada

Makoto Hasegawa

Masahiro Mimura

Katsushi Yokozaki

Kazunori Watanabe

Takaaki Kishigami

Kazuaki Takahashi

Motonobu Furuta

Takashi Maruyama

Hideo Shinonaga

Susumu Kanzaki

Hiroyoshi Takao

Nobuyuki Yoshida

Masahiro Fukuyama

Satoru Sogabe

Hideaki Yamada

Kiyoyuki Sugimori

Junichi Koshiba

Yuji Ikezawa

Yasunari Tanaka

Masahito Matsumoto

Nobuhiro Usui

Keisaku Yamamoto

Masahiro Kakugo

Tatsuya Miyatake

Masashi Yamamoto

Seiichiro Ima

Minoru Yoshinaka

Kenichi Ohkawa

Yuji Kobayashi

Yasumi Imagawa

Yasuaki Namura

Kenichi Higashi

Jun Yagi

Noboru Komine

Yuji Shigematsu

Kouziro Matsuo

Hiroshi Toyoda

Kohji Kubo

Fumio Ishibashi

Shoichi Nezu

A process for producing a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising the step of crosslinking dynamically at least the following components (A) to (C) in the presence of a crosslinking agent: (A) 10 to 50% by weight of an oil-extended ethylene-&#x3b1;-olefin-non-conjugated diene copolymer rubber having a density of 850 to 900 kg/m, and a Mooney viscosity (ML100&#xb0; C.) of 30 to 150, (B) 20 to 60% by weight of an ethylene-&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer having a density of 850 to 910 kg/m, and a melt flow rate of 0.05 to 80 g/10 minutes measured at 230&#xb0; C. under a load of 21.18 N, and (C) 20 to 60% by weight of a propylene resin, the total amount of the components (A) to (C) being 100% by weight; and an air-bag cover comprising a thermoplastic elastomer composition produced according to said process.

Process for producing thermoplastic elastomer composition, and air-bag cover

A direct-conversion receiver includes a local oscillator for generating a local oscillator signal, a converter circuit for converting a received radio signal into a pair of a baseband I signal and a baseband Q signal in response to the local oscillator signal, a demodulator for demodulating the pair of the baseband I signal and the baseband Q signal into a demodulation-resultant signal which is neither an I signal nor a Q signal, a detector circuit for detecting a difference between a frequency of the local oscillator signal and a frequency of a carrier of the received radio signal, a clock signal generator for generating a first clock signal providing a timing which corresponds to a center of a symbol period, a signal delay device for delaying the first clock signal to provide a second clock signal, and a symbol deciding circuit for deciding a logic state of the demodulation-resultant signal at a timing determined by the second clock signal.

Direct-conversion receiver for digital-modulation signal

A multilayer molded article comprising a skin and a substrate consisting of a polypropylene resin composition having a crystallization rate of 45 second or less, said skin being integrally adhered to the substrate. Said multilayer molded article can be produced by feeding a skin material and a molten polypropylene resin composition having a crystallization rate of 45 second or less between a pair of upper and lower molds, molding the molten polypropylene resin composition in the molds with simultaneous adhering of the skin material to the surface of the molded resin composition and then cooling the molten resin composition to solidify the same. Said multilayer molded article has a small deformation degree without the soft feeling of the skin material being impaired.

Process for producing multilayer molded articles

A polypropylene resin composition, which exhibits an excellent coating adherence, high rigidity, high impact strength at low temperatures, prominent heat resistance and excellent appearance of moldings even without effecting a treatment with trichloroethane as a pretreatment step before coating, comprises 30 to 92% by weight crystalline ethylene propylene block copolymer (A), 5 to 30% by weight ethylene-.alpha. olefin copolymer rubber (B), 3 to 20% by weight ethylene-butene-1 copolymer (C) having the following characteristics:

Polypropylene resin composition

A direct-conversion receiver includes a direct-conversion demodulator. A first device detects a strength of a received signal. A clock signal generator outputs a clock signal in response to a reception start signal. The clock signal has a frequency corresponding to a symbol rate or higher. A second device samples an output signal of the demodulator at a timing determined by the clock signal. A third device samples an output signal of the first device at a timing determined by the clock signal. A fourth device stores 'n' output signals of the second device which relate to a signal periodically transmitted from a transmitting station 'n' times, wherein 'n' denotes a natural number equal to 2 or greater. A fifth device stores 'n' output signals of the third device which correspond in timing to the 'n' output signals of the second device. A sixth device reads out signals from the fourth device, and reads out signals from the fifth device. The sixth device weights the signals read out from the fourth device in response to the signals read out from the fifth device. A seventh device combines output signals of the sixth device.

Direct-conversion receiver for digital-modulation signal with signal

A resin composition for extrusion molding which has a melt flow rate (MFR) of from 0.5 to 30 g/10 min., having (A) 1 to 80 parts by weight of an ethylenic polymer which gives an endothermic peak in a temperature range of from 80.degree. to 120.degree. C. in a temperature rise thermogram as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter, has a melt flow rate (MFR) of from 0.5 to 50 g/10 min., and is prepared by high-pressure radical polymerization, (B) 5 to 80 parts by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and an .alpha.-olefine containing 3 to 12 carbon atoms which gives at least one endothermic peak in a temperature range of from 110.degree. to 130.degree. C. in the temperature rise thermogram as described above, has a melt flow rate (MFR) of from 0.5 to 30 g/10 min. and a density of from 0.900 to 0.935 g/cm.sup.3 and (C) 5 to 70 parts by weight of the copolymer of ethylene and an .alpha.-olefin containing 3 to 12 carbon atoms which has a melt flow rate (MFR) of from 0.5 to 30 g/10 min. and a density of from 0.870 to 0.920 g/cm.sup.3 in an unannealed state, and gives no endothermic peak at temperatures above 110.degree. C. in the temperature rise thermogram as described above, and in which a ratio of a main component is not less than 80%; which gives a packaging material having significantly improved properties such as heat sealability at low temperature, heat-sealing strength, hot tacking property and bag breaking strength, and exhibits an excellent extrusion processability such as film forming property and extrusion loading.

Resin composition for extrusion molding

A polypropylene resin composition, which exhibits an excellent coating adherence, high rigidity, high impact strength at low temperatures, prominent heat resistance and excellent appearance of moldings as required for coatings on the exterior parts of automobiles even without effecting a treatment with trichloroethane as pretreatment step before coating and without a primer as undercoating and which can be baked at a temperature of 130.degree. C. or higher, comprises 15 to 92% by weight crystalline ethylene propylene block copolymer, 5 to 40% by weight ethylene propylene copolymer rubber, 1 to 15% by weight polypropylene oligomer containing hydroxyl group, and 2 to 30% by weight inorganic filler.

A first demodulator for generating a demodulated signal by demodulating first and second baseband signals obtained from a received frequency shift keying signal, comprises: a first mixer for mixing the first baseband signal with the second baseband signal; a frequency divider for 1/2-frequency-dividing an output of the first mixer; a second mixer for mixing the first baseband signal with an output of said frequency divider; and a frequency judging circuit for judging whether or not a frequency of an output of the second mixer is larger than a reference value to generate the demodulated signal. In order to effect the frequency judging by the frequency judging circuit always at a high frequency, there may be further provided a first inverter after the first mixer, a second inverter after the frequency judging circuit for compensating the inverting of the first inverter, and a frequency comparing circuit for detecting the frequency of the output of the first mixer. In order to effect the frequency judging on the second baseband signal side, third and fourth mixers may be further provided. The frequency judging are made from the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal.

FSK data demodulator using mixing of quadrature baseband signals

An FSK data receiving system is provided which is capable of constituting a direct-conversion receiver suitable for realizing an integrated circuit, is capable of decoding in a wide receiving band width, and is capable of realizing a small-sized and less-electric power consumption data receiving. An FSK-modulated local oscillator signal 3 is applied to a local oscillator 2, and there is provided a decode circuit 15 which obtains the decode signal 14 by judging whether the FSK-modulated frequency deviation of the carrier wave signal 1 is a positive deviation or a negative deviation on the basis of a comparison result of a voltage change in a frequency-voltage conversion circuit 16 for a base-band signal 8; i.e. the output signal of a frequency mixer 6. An offset amount of the local oscillator frequency is judged by a voltage judging circuit 17 to produce a control signal 18 Further, there is provided another decode circuit 22 which makes a judgement of frequency change of the base-band signal 8 and a judgement of in-phase/opposite-phase relationship from the decode signal 14 and the output of the voltage judging circuit 17 so as to obtain a decode signal 23. Moreover, there is provided a decode signal processing circuit 25 which obtains a decode signal 24 from the decode signals 14, 23 in response to the control signal 18.

FSK data receiving system

An FSK demodulator for demodulating first and second baseband signals obtained from a received frequency shift keying signal, the first and second baseband signals having a quadrature relation therebetween, a lead and lag relation between the first and second baseband signals being changed in accordance with frequency shift from a carrier frequency of the frequency shift keying signal, comprises: a voltage change judging circuit for judging whether a magnitude of the first baseband signal increases or decreases within a predetermined interval; and an inverting circuit responsive to an output of the voltage change judging circuit and the second baseband signal for outputting a demodulated signal produced by inverting the second baseband signal in accordance with the output of the voltage change judging circuit. In addition, a second voltage change judging circuit and a second inverting circuit and a combining circuit for combining the results of said first and second inverting circuits may be provided to improve noise resistance. Inflection points in the baseband signal are detected to select one output from the first, second inverting circuit and the combining circuit in accordance with detection of the inflection points.

FSK data demodulator

A data receiving system comprising an I base-band signal and a Q base-band signal which are used in a quadrature demodulation operation. Zero-crossing points of respective base-band signals are detected and a control signal is generated in response to each zero-crossing point. A phase-shift switching circuit alternately selects either the I base-band signal or the Q base-band signal in response to the control signal to generate an I/Q base-band signal. And, a demodulation operation is executed on the basis of the I/Q signal.

Herein is disclosed a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising a copolymer rubber constituted of ethylene, propylene and nonconjugated polyene, wherein ethylene/propylene molar ratio is 78/22 to 97/3 and the total content of propylene and nonconjugated polyene is 6 to 30% by mole in said copolymer rubber. By the use of the rubber composition of the present invention, a vulcanized product excellent in tensile strength, heat resistance, oil resistance, compression set resistance and flex behavior can be obtained. The vulcanized product can be used as automobile parts and other innumerable articles such as socket cover, heat resistant hose, electric wire, condenser cap, heat resistant belt, vibration-proof rubber, hoses, weather strip, seal sponge, black side wall of tire, etc.

Rubber composition

Disclosed herein is a thermoplastic resin composition which comprises:

Thermoplastic resin composition

Herein is disclosed a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising a copolymer rubber constituted of ethylene, propylene and nonconjugated polyene, wherein ethylene/propylene molar ratio is 78/22 to 97/3 and the total content of propylene and nonconjugated polyene is 6 to 30% by mole in said copolymer rubber. By the use of the rubber composition of the present invention, a vulcanized product excellent in tensile strength, heat resistance, oil resistance, compression set resistance and flex behavior can be obtained. The vulcanized product can be used as automobile parts and other innumerable articles such as socket cover, heat resistant hose, electric wire, condenser cap, heat resistant belt, vibration-proof rubber, hoses weather strip, seal sponge, black side wall of tire, etc.

Disclosed is a polypropylene resin composition which is superior in mechanical strength and affords molded articles having good appearance which comprises (A) a crystalline polypropylene, (B) a polypropylene modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an acid anhydride thereof, and (C) a zinc oxide whiskers. When the composition additionally contains an inorganic filler such as glass fibers, molded articles further improved in appearance can be obtained. The zinc oxide whiskers preferably have a tetrapod type crystal structure.

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Hiroyuki Harada