Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Corporation

Nakamoto Packs Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Hosokawa Yoko

Mikunishiko Co., Ltd.

Hitoshi Sasaki

Shoji Igota

Kaori Endo

Yukio Kobayashi

Rika Nishiike

Takeshi Otani

Yasuji Ota

Hiroshi Katayama

Yasushi Yamazaki

Yuuichiroh Tsujiguchi

Mitsuru Ohba

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Raizo Kuge

Kaoru Chujo

Kentaro Murase

Susumu Niwa

Takuya Noda

Shigeru Yoshigai

Nobuyuki Katae

Hiroyuki Nakagoshi

Takuji Kawaguchi

Katsuro Sasauchi

Namio Ogihara

Keizoh Shigaki

Mitsuyoshi Matsubara

Tadayuki Mukai

Takashi Nakamoto

Norishige Matsuo

Yuikio Kobayashi

Shyoji Igota

Shingo Abe

Yoshiyuki Koizumi

Kaori Shimizu

Seiichi Okude

Hidenori Azegami

Upon manufacturing a heat-resistant container using PET sheet, high heat-resistance is achieved without a stretching operation. The method comprises a molding sheet-making process, wherein a sheet is made including organic acid metal salt particulates produced by allowing an inorganic basic material or carbonate that is solid at ordinary temperature to react with an organic acid that is solid at ordinary temperature in the equivalent relationship, and a container-molding process, wherein, the molding sheet made in the molding sheet-making process is heated to 80-130&#xb0; C., formed into a container shape by a vacuum or vacuum-pressure forming machine using a mold, and heat-set by keeping at 130-220&#xb0; C. in the same mold, and the container formed in the container-molding process has a crystallinity of 18% or more.

Method of manufacturing heat-resistant container

Provided is a paper container for foods capable of being fabricated by heat sealing which does not absorb flavors, such as limonene, and capable of storing a long period at ordinary temperature. The laminated material for paper containers is composed of paper substrate layer/adhesive for paper layer/first adhesive for barrier layer/barrier layer/second adhesive for barrier layer/heat-sealable PET resin layer, has an oxygen gas barrier ability of 2.0 ml/m&#xb7;D&#xb7;atm or less, and the heat-sealable PET resin layer is made having a crystal portion of less than 15%, non-crystal portion of 85% or more.

Laminated material for paper containers and paper containers using it

A communication device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to extract a component of a voice signal that is input, detect a speech rate of the voice signal, adjust the extracted component, based on the detected speech rate, and add the adjusted component to the voice signal to expand a band of the voice signal.

Communication device

An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording medium; a reversing unit configured to reverse front and back sides of the recording medium; a recording head configured to reciprocatingly scan to form a first image on a first side of the recording medium, which is reciprocatingly conveyed by the conveyance unit at a first conveyance speed V, and a second image on a second side of the recording medium, which is conveyed at a second conveyance speed Vand ejected, in a case of performing a double-sided printing; and a control unit configured to control the first conveyance speed Vand the second conveyance speed Vto satisfy a relation&#x2266;()&#xd7;2,where t is a scanning time required for one reciprocation of the recording head, and W is an image formation width of the recording head.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An ink jet recording apparatus includes: a container to store ink; a detector to detect a remaining ink amount; a liquid feeding unit to supply the ink to the container; an energy generation unit to cause the ink to be discharged; a storage unit to store correspondence information in which driving information for driving the energy generation unit is associated with each piece of time information indicating a supply time taken to supply the ink; and a setting unit to set new driving information using the correspondence information when an actual supply time is different from the supply time indicated by the time information associated with current driving information among the pieces of time information. The actual supply time indicates a time period from when the liquid feeding unit starts supplying the ink until the detector detects that the remaining ink amount is equal to or higher than a threshold.

Ink jet recording apparatus and control method, configured to detect remaining ink

A voice processing apparatus includes a voice signal acquiring unit that acquires a voice signal converted to plural frequency bands from an input signal having a narrowed band; an expanding unit that generates based on a narrowband component of the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit, an expansion band component expanding the band of the voice signal; a correcting unit that corrects the power of the expansion band component by a correction amount determined based on a noise component included in the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit; and an output unit that outputs the voice signal of which the band has been expanded based on the expansion band component corrected by the correcting unit and based on the narrowband component of the voice signal acquired by the voice signal acquiring unit.

Apparatus and method for voice processing and telephone apparatus

Mixing milk with a reaction product, which is prepared by dissolving at a high concentration highly pure milk whey protein having been separated from cow's milk, etc. and concentrated and then treating with transglutaminase, then inoculating with a lactic acid bacterium and fermenting economically affords a yogurt of agitated type, which is enriched in whey protein, shows little water release and has a rich feeling and a highly smooth texture.

Process for producing whey protein-enriched fermented milk of agitated type

A method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound, includes the steps of: storing an input sound signal in a buffer; leaving a sound signal from the buffer as it is or extending the sound signal from the buffer in a sound section where a power of the input sound signal exceeds a threshold value; leaving the sound signal from the buffer as it is, compressing the sound signal from the buffer, or extending the sound signal from the buffer, in a no-sound section, so that the reproduction speed of speech sound is changed; wherein a speech head protection section is set prior to the sound section being set to be a storing amount of the buffer limited by a designated limited value; and compression or deletion of the sound signal is adjusted by a compression ratio or prevented if there is the sound section in the speech head protection section, so that speech head protection is performed.

Apparatus and method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound

A voice speed control apparatus comprising: an utterance/non-utterance judging unit judging whether a processing target segment in inputted a voice signal is an utterance segment or a non-utterance segment; a non-utterance continuation length acquiring unit acquiring a non-utterance continuation length representing a length of the voice signal judged continuously to be the non-utterance; a determining unit determining a reproducing speed of the processing target segment in the voice signal in accordance with the non-utterance continuation length so that the reproducing speed gets higher as the non-utterance continuation length gets larger and so that an increase in reproducing speed is restrained to a greater degree as the non-utterance continuation length becomes smaller; and a changing unit changing the reproducing speed of the voice signal, corresponding to the reproducing speed.

Voice speed control apparatus

A voice synthesizer, which obtains a voice by emphasizing a specific part of a sentence, includes an emphasis degree deciding unit that extracts a word or a collocation to be emphasized from among respective words or respective collocations on the basis of an extracting reference with respect to the each word or the each collocation included in a sentence and deciding an emphasis degree of the extracted word or the extracted collocation, an acoustic processing unit that synthesizes a voice having an emphasis degree which is decided by the emphasis degree deciding unit applied to the word to be emphasized or the collocation to be emphasized, whereby the emphasized part of the word or the collocation can be obtained automatically on the basis of the extracting reference, such as a frequency of appearance and a level of importance of the word or the collocation.

Word or collocation emphasizing voice synthesizer

An infusion solution bag is made of a particular laminated film which contains a heat-resistant resin layer, an oxygen gas barrier layer and a sealant layer laminated through an adhesive resin layer by thermal lamination, which is a solventless method.

Infusion solution bag and laminated film therefor

An audio coder that improves audio quality by reducing a quantization error. When a code corresponding to a sampled value of an audio signal is determined, a candidate code storage section stores all combinations of candidate codes in a neighborhood interval of the sampled value. A local decoder generates reproduced signals by decoding the codes stored in the candidate code storage section. An error evaluation section calculates, for each candidate code, a sum of squares of differentials between input sampled values and reproduced signals, detects a combination of candidate codes by which a smallest sum is obtained, that is to say, which minimizes a quantization error, and outputs a code included in the detected combination of candidate codes.

Audio coder

The collating device includes the Formant estimation section that estimates feature amount data that represents a time-based change in frequencies of first and second Formants from voice data input through the microphone. The difference computing section calculates a difference between some reference feature amount data and the feature amount data as the feature-amount difference data. This feature-amount difference data is stored in a database. The feature-amount difference data corresponding to voice data input upon collation is collated with the feature-amount difference data registered in the database, and the result is output.

Method of and device for collating data, and computer product

A standing pouch having a recess formed on the upper part of a side of the body of the pouch and spaced from the upper side of the body, and a relief connecting with the inside of the pouch surrounded by an end of the upper side, the upper part of the side and the upper part of the recess and becoming a spout by removing the end portion of the relief. The standing pouch can ensure transfer of a fluid material contained therein to another container without the occurrence of overflow problem. The standing pouch permits the variation of the discharged amount to be small and less dripping occurs.

Standing pouch

The bag for bag-in-box of this invention comprises: a bag body composed of flat portions and side portions each having a folding line along which the side portion is folded inward; oblique seal portions provided at respective corner portions of the bag body, the oblique seal portion being formed by obliquely cutting-off the respective corner portions; and a triangular fin portion integrally formed with the oblique seal portion; wherein the flat portion and the side portion are composed of several sheets of synthetic resin films that are superposed to each other. The dimensions of the bag shall be set within a predetermined range so as to meet the International Standard of a pallet. The opening portion to be formed on the outer box of the bag-in-box has a size enabling to sufficiently draw out a spout and the bag body portion around the spout to form a funnel-shape. According to the present invention, there can be provided an inner bag for a bag-in-box excellent in shock resistance, content discharging property and self-supporting property at a time when the inner bag is filled with the content.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Hitoshi Sasaki