Kaneka Corporation

Asterisk, Inc.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Riken Corporation

Noriyuki Suzuki

Tetsuya Minami

Nobuo Nakamura

Taizo Aoyama

Yoshihiko Hashimoto

Shingo Hamada

Takeshi Kikutani

Ryohei Koyama

Naoya Miyaji

Kazuhiro Hara

Wataru Takarada

Hiroki Kitagawa

Yoshitaka Ono

Genichiro Matsuda

Akihisa Nakahashi

Shinsuke Komatsu

Takahiko Sugaya

Hidekazu Kawakubo

Takao Namihira

Naoshi Yamaguchi

Tetsuro Yamamoto

Yutaka Kaneda

Tetsuo Mekata

Shuji Taketani

Syougo Utumi

Ryuji Fukuda

Hideki Abe

Youichi Oohara

Kimihiko Nakano

Yuichi Hata

Atsushi Miyano

Mitsuharu Kourogi

Kenichiro Nishiza

Sarah Siti

Tomoya Noma

Akio Yoshioka

A reader includes a smartphone configured to read information from an image of a symbol included in a photographed image created by a camera module, and a unit attached to the smartphone. The unit includes a semiconductor laser to display a marker in a photographing range of the camera module. A user simply adjusts the orientation of the reader so that the marker overlaps on the symbol for reading processing of the smartphone, whereby information can be read from the symbol.

Reader, program, and unit

A reader that reduces the impacts of radio waves while keeping the convenience during reading, and such an information providing system. The reader reads information from a RF tag attached to a product. The reader has an opening, and includes a shield that accommodates the product placed through the opening, and an antenna that radiates radio waves for communicating with the RF tag attached to the accommodated product. The reader reads information from the RF tag while keeping the shield open.

Shielded RF tag reader

A reading system includes a portable information terminal configured to recognize information in a symbol on the basis of an acquired image, and a wearable camera that functions as a peripheral device for the portable information terminal. The camera has an image sensor configured to generate the image, and is configured to transmit the generated image to the portable information terminal.

Reading system and camera

Lower surfaceor upper surfaceof object to be sortedis processed such that arithmetic mean roughness Ra is not less than 0.025 &#x3bc;m in not less than 50% of lower surfaceor upper surface, object to be sortedis irradiated with infrared light, and reflected lightfrom lower surfaceor upper surfaceof object to be sortedis received, thereby determining a resin type of object to be sortedon the basis of a reflection or absorption spectrum of object to be sortedobtained from reflected light

Resin determination method and apparatus

A disassembling apparatus that shatters an object by means of pulsed discharge includes a container that can be filled with a liquid, an anode that is disposed within the container, a cathode that is disposed such that the object can be placed so as to straddle the anode and the cathode, object scattering prevention means that encloses an object disassembling region above the anode and the cathode, and a pulsed power supply that applies a high voltage pulse between the anode and the cathode.

Object disassembling apparatus

An objective is to improve the spinnability and the productivity and increase the tensile strength of a polyester fiber containing polyhydroxyalkanoate. Disclosed is a biodegradable aliphatic polyester fiber containing a polyhydroxyalkanoate, a nucleating agent, and a lubricant, wherein the nucleating agent contains pentaerythritol, and the lubricant contains at least one of behenic amide, stearic acid amide, erucamide, oleic amide, and a combination thereof.

Biodegradable aliphatic polyester fiber and method for producing the same

Provided is a resin determination method including: placing an object on a placement surface with a diffusion reflectance of equal to or greater than 80% in an effective wavelength region of infrared light and with arithmetic mean roughness of equal to or greater than 0.25 &#x3bc;m and equal to or less than 25 &#x3bc;m; irradiating the object with infrared light; receiving reflected light from the object that has been irradiated with the infrared light; and determining a resin type based on a reflection spectrum or an absorption spectrum obtained by the reflected light.

Resin determination method and resin determination apparatus

A mobile connection unit, configured to connect a mobile terminal having a first terminal with a mobile reading unit having a second terminal and configured to read data from an information medium, includes a main body, a first terminal portion, a second terminal portion, and an electrical pathway. The main body is attached to the mobile terminal, and the reading unit is attached to and detached from the main body. The first terminal portion is disposed at the main body, and contacts the first terminal of the mobile terminal for electrical connection with the mobile terminal. The second terminal portion is disposed at the main body, and contacts the second terminal of the reading unit for electrical connection with the reading unit. The electrical pathway is disposed between the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion to connect the mobile terminal and the reading unit.

Connection unit, information-processing device

A polyester resin composition includes: a polylactic acid; a poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate); pentaerythritol; and a silicate. In the polyester resin composition, an amount of the polylactic acid is from 55 to 75 parts by weight, and an amount of the poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) (B) is from 25 to 45 parts by weight, with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total amount of the polylactic acid and the poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate); an amount of the pentaerythritol is from 0.05 to 20 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the polylactic acid and the poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate); and an amount of the silicate is from 10 to 40 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the polylactic acid and the poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate).

Polyester resin composition and polyester resin formed article

An object of the present invention is to: improve slowness of crystallization that is a drawback of polyhydroxyalkanoate; suppress bloom of a nucleating agent or the like; and improve surface smoothness and mold transferability of an obtained molded body. The present invention provides an aliphatic polyester resin composition including polyhydroxyalkanoate (A), pentaerythritol (B), and a filler (C).

Aliphatic polyester resin composition and aliphatic polyester resin molded article

A cover set includes a first cover and a second cover. The first cover and the second cover have device fitting parts that have the same shape and size. A peripheral device is fitted in the device fitting parts. The first cover and the second cover have terminal fitting parts that have different shapes and sizes. A first mobile information terminal having a large size is fitted in the terminal fitting part of the first cover. Another mobile information terminal having a small size is fitted in the terminal fitting part of the second cover. This allows a user to select a mobile information terminal that is used together with the peripheral device as appropriate.

Cover set

An object is to improve slow crystallization that is a drawback of polyhydroxyalkanoates, improve processability in mold processing, such as injection molding, improve processing speed, and suppress blooming from a obtaining molded article. Provided is an aliphatic polyester resin composition including a polyhydroxyalkanoate (A), a vinyl acetate-containing copolymer (B), and pentaerythritol (C), wherein the polyhydroxyalkanoate (A) and the vinyl acetate-containing copolymer (B) are immiscible.

Provided is a resin composition excellent in processability and productivity, which improves low crystallization rate and improves processability in forming such as injection molding or sheet forming. Provided is a polyester resin composition including a polyester resin (A), a crystallization promoter (B), and pentaerythritol (C).

Polyester resin composition and formed article including resin composition

An object of the present invention is to improve spinnability, productivity, and tensile strength of a polyester fiber containing poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate). By spinning the polyester resin containing the poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) at a high spinning velocity, the spinnability, productivity, and tensile strength of the polyester fiber can be improved.

Polyester fiber

Disclosed herein is an aliphatic polyester resin composition that simultaneously improves slow crystallization, low impact strength, and low tensile elongation that are the drawbacks of a polyhydroxyalkanoate. The aliphatic polyester resin composition comprises: a polyhydroxyalkanoate (A); a graft copolymer (B); and pentaerythritol (C), wherein the graft copolymer (B) is obtained by graft polymerization of a vinyl-based monomer onto at least one rubber selected from the group consisting of a composite rubber (b1) comprising a polyorganosiloxane component and a polyalkyl(meth)acrylate component, an acrylic rubber (b2), and a diene-based rubber (b3) comprising a diene-based monomer.

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Settsu, Japan

Noriyuki Suzuki