Pioneer Corporation

Junkosha Inc.

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Empire Technology Development LLC

Junkosha Co., Ltd.

Shizuoka Pioneer Corporation

Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Suzuki

Nobuhiko Saegusa

Tetsuya Shigeta

Kohei Yuri

Kazutake Uehira

Hitoshi Mochizuki

Tsutomu Tokunaga

Tetsuya Hirose

Satoru Kobayashi

Satoshi Tanaka

Tomoyo Okubo

Masaru Miyoshi

Masahiro Nomura

Shigeo Ide

Hiroyuki Miyachi

Takahiro Tanase

Yukie Takahashi

Syoji Suenaga

Masashi Iwasaki

Kouji Murakami

Tsunehiko Naganuma

Yasuyuki Kimura

The disclosure provides a tube which is rarely broken and is stable during the process of the production of a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability in a length direction. The tube includes a melt-processable fluororesin and when the strain of the tube is defined as ε, the stress at the strain is defined as σ (MPa) and the strain ε is put on the horizontal axis and the stress σ is put on the longitudinal axis on a coordinate graph, each of a straight line ab and a straight line cd which are defined by four coordinate points a (0.4,8.8), b(0.4,2.4), c(1.0,9.9) and d(1.0,3.2) on the graph intersects with a mechanical property curve of the tube which is obtained by carrying out a tensile test under the conditions of an ambient temperature of 60° C., an initial chuck-to-chuck distance of 22±0.05 mm and a tensile speed of 5 mm/sec.

Heat-shrinkable tube having tearable properties

Provided is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, particularly, a tube having excellent tear straightness and high heat-shrinkability at low temperature. The tube is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which includes, as a base resin, a copolymer including at least tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as constituent monomers, and as a resin other than the base resin, a copolymer including at least tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as constituent monomers, in which a thickness of an entanglement unit of a polymer observed at a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube is 9 &#x3bc;m or less, and has excellent tear straightness and high heat-shrinkability.

Heat-shrinkable tube having tearability

Technologies are generally described for generating depth data based on a spatial light pattern. In some examples, a method of generating depth data includes obtaining an image of one or more objects on which a spatial light pattern is projected, wherein blurring of the spatial light pattern in the image monotonously increases or decreases in a depth direction, calculating a value of a spatial frequency component of the image in a local image area around a pixel of interest, and determining depth data corresponding to the calculated value of the spatial frequency component by utilizing a preset relationship between depths and values of the spatial frequency component.

Generation of depth data based on spatial light pattern

An object of the present invention is to provide a tube which can be easily torn and has a large heat-shrinkability at a low temperature. The tube of the present invention is a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, including a mixture of a fluorine resin and a different kind of resin from the fluorine resin, in which an amount of change in loss energy, &#x394;E loss, with change in temperature from 175&#xb0; C. to 185&#xb0; C. is a positive value.

The present disclosure relates to a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, and particularly, to a heat-shrinkable tube having excellent tear straightness. Further, the present disclosure relates to a tube having high heat-shrinkage rate at low temperature. A tube including at least a fluororesin as a base resin, in which the thickness of the entanglement unit of a polymer observed on a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube after being shrunk at 200&#xb0; C. by 35% or more is 1 &#x3bc;m to 9 &#x3bc;m, has excellent tear straightness.

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information provision device is presented. The information provision device may include an image searching unit configured to detect, from an image, a retro-reflective article and an article identification associated with the retro-reflective article. The device may also include a projecting unit configured to control projecting of an image pattern to the retro-reflective article. The device may further include a controller coupled with the image searching unit and the projecting control unit, wherein upon a determination that the retro-reflective article is relevant to a route, the controller is configured to generate the image pattern to be projected to the retro-reflective article.

Information provision device using retro-reflecting article

A separation membrane module having hollow fibers, wherein a plurality of hollow fibers are heated and melted to bond and thermally fuse the external surfaces of the hollow fibers with each other; and a method of manufacturing a separation membrane module having hollow fibers whereby the ends of a plurality of hollow fibers are inserted into a sheath, the sheath and the hollow fibers are tightly bonded together to form spaces, and the sheath portion into which hollow fibers have been inserted is heated up to the temperature at which the surfaces of the hollow fibers melt, with the spaces thus formed kept in a decompressed state, so that the exterior surfaces of the hollow fibers are thermally fused and integrated together.

Separation membrane module with hollow fiber and a method of making the same

Disclosed herein is a method for driving a display panel that provides excellent halftone brightness at low power consumption. A unit display period of a video signal is constituted by a plurality of divided display periods. In each of the divided display periods, the pixel data write process in which each of the pixel cells is set to either a light-emitting cell or a non-light-emitting cell in accordance with pixel data corresponding to the video signal is carried out. In addition, in each of the divided display periods, the light emission sustain process in which only the aforementioned light-emitting cell is allowed to emit light for the number corresponding to a weight assigned to each of the divided display periods is carried out. In accordance with the brightness level of the video signal, the number of light emissions that is to be assigned to each of the divided display periods is changed.

Method for driving display panel

The invention provides novel substituted phenylpropionic acid derivatives that bind to the receptor as ligands of human peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor &#x3b1; (PPAR&#x3b1;) to activate and exhibit potent lipid-decreasing action, and processes for preparing them. It relates to substituted phenylpropionic acid derivatives represented by a general formula (1) [wherein Rdenotes a lower alkyl group with carbon atoms of 1 to 4, lower alkoxy group with carbon atoms of 1 to 3, trifluoromethyl group, trifluoromethoxy group, phenyl group which is unsubstituted or may have substituents, phenoxy group which is unsubstituted or may have substituents or benzyloxy group which is unsubstituted or may have substituents, Rdenotes a hydrogen atom, lower alkyl group with carbon atoms of 1 to 4 or lower alkoxy group with carbon atoms of 1 to 3, Rdenotes a lower alkoxy group with carbon atoms of 1 to 3, and the binding mode of A portion denotes &#x2014;CHCONH&#x2014;, &#x2014;NHCOCH&#x2014;, &#x2014;CHCHCO&#x2014;, &#x2014;CHCHCH&#x2014;, &#x2014;CHCHO&#x2014;, &#x2014;CONHCH&#x2014;, &#x2014;CHNHCH&#x2014;, &#x2014;COCHO&#x2014;, &#x2014;OCHCO&#x2014;, &#x2014;COCHNH&#x2014; or &#x2014;CHCHCO&#x2014;], their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and their hydrates, and processes for preparing them.

Substituted phenylpropionic acid derivatives

The object of the invention is to provide a method for driving a plasma display panel that provides an improved expression of levels of halftone as well as an improved display quality. In N sub-fields constituting a display period of one field, when a pixel data writing step for setting discharge cells to either one of non-light-emitting cells or light-emitting cells in response to pixel data and a light-emission sustaining step for allowing only the aforementioned light-emitting cells to emit light only during a light-emission period corresponding to weights assigned to the sub-fields respectively are executed, the light-emission period in the light-emission sustaining step of the respective sub-fields is changed field by field or frame by frame. According to another aspect, the invention allows for carrying out selectively a first drive pattern or a second drive pattern. The first drive pattern is carried out by alternating, field by field (frame by frame) in response to the type of input video signals, first and second light-emission drive sequences which have mutually different ratios of the number of times of light-emissions in the light-emission sustaining step during one field (one frame). The second drive pattern is carried out by alternating, field by field (frame by frame) in response to the type of input video signals, third and fourth light-emission drive sequences which have mutually different ratios of the number of times of light-emissions in the aforementioned light-emission sustaining step.

Method for driving a plasma display panel

A display panel driving method that is capable of displaying images with false contours suppressed and without the occurrence of flicker, even when the vertical sync frequency of the input image signal is low. When an image signal with a low mean brightness level is input, or when an image signal having a comparatively high vertical sync frequency is input, light emission elements comprised by pixels are caused to emit light in a number of continuous subfields corresponding to the brightness level expressed by the input image signal in one field. If an image signal is input in which the mean brightness level is high, and in addition the vertical sync frequency is comparatively low, light emission elements are caused to emit light in a number of continuous subfields corresponding to the brightness level expresses by the image signal, in each of the first half and the second half of a field.

Display panel driving method with selectable driving pattern

A display device which can perform excellent image display with reduced dither noise. Values of dither coefficients that are allotted to respective pixel positions in a pixel group are altered between when the brightness level of an image displayed by the pixel data is lower than a prescribed brightness and when the brightness level of the image falls within a prescribed intermediate brightness range.

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Saitama, Japan

Masahiro Suzuki