Nec Corporation

Japan Display Inc.

Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Hitachi-High-Technologies Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Disco Corporation

Kureha Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Shiseido Company, Limited

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Hitachi Displays, Ltd.

Resonac Corporation

Takeshi Sato

Takayuki Arai

Masahiro Kobayashi

Yuji Hirai

Shunsuke Shimada

Yoshinori Suzuki

Michiaki Sakamoto

Akira Inoue

Kenji Sasaki

Yasunari Umemoto

Mutsuko Hatano

Kenji Shimizu

Masateru Morimoto

Takeshi Sekiguchi

Tsunesuke Takano

Prakash Sreedhar Murthy

Isao Nagaoki

Yasuhira Nagakubo

Kenichi Takahashi

Tomonori Tanoue

Yusuke Ikeda

Tetsuya Iida

Atsushi Endo

Hideaki Sato

Ken Harada

Yoshiaki Toyota

Yoshifumi Taniguchi

Tetsufumi Kawamura

Keiichiro Hayakawa

Takashi Anyashiki

Hiroyuki Sumi

Hiroaki Matsumoto

Sakae Kikuchi

Takashi Kitahara

Kiyotaka Nakano

Hidekazu Fujimoto

Tsutomu Kobori

Takuya Kagawa

Minoru Asanuma

Akinori Murao

Kenichi Aiba

Taku Kawano

Kinzo Narumo

Taizo Sogo

Anoop R Hegde

Kimitoshi Ougiichi

Kazuhira Ichikawa

Katsuyoshi Kojima

Yasushi Ogasawara

Youko Yoshioka

Kiyoshi Tada

Tatsuo Kuwayama

Makoto Sakamoto

Atsushi Nishida

Kouji Mikami

Shuji Miyazaki

Hiroshi Yabata

Jerome D Smith

Ryuichi Takahashi

Tatsuya Okawa

Masayuki Miyata

Motonori Ando

Taihei Nouchi

William Borland

Toru Omura

Yasushi Ariyoshi

Takamichi Yoshikawa

Toshiyuki Oyagi

Shoji Masuda

Takayuki Miyauchi

Kazuyoshi Takahashi

Yoshiko Takabatake

Isamu Sekine

Tsutomu Okuno

Kiyotaka Sumito

Toshifumi Makino

Taro Murohoshi

Kazuyuki Hasumi

Masayuki Shimazu

Naoyuki Takeuchi

Tetsuo Kanie

Kazumasa Kawashima

A method for producing a polyarylene sulfide comprising: initiating a polymerization reaction by heating a mixture containing an organic polar solvent, a sulfur source, water, a polyhaloaromatic compound, and an alkali metal hydroxide in the presence of at least one auxiliary agent selected from the group consisting of carboxylates and the like, to form a reaction mixture containing a prepolymer having a conversion rate of a polyhaloaromatic compound of 50 mol % or greater, then a phase separation agent addition step of adding a phase separation agent into the reaction mixture, then continuing the polymerization reaction, and then cooling the reaction mixture, in the cooling step, the coolant being added to the reaction mixture at a temperature that is at least 5° C. higher than a maximum thickening temperature and lower than 250° C., and a cooling rate at the maximum thickening temperature being 2.2° C./min or higher and 3.9° C./min or lower.

Method for producing polyarylene sulfide

A method for charging raw materials into a blast furnace is as follows. The blast furnace includes a bell-less charging device that includes a plurality of main hoppers and an auxiliary hopper. The auxiliary hopper has a smaller capacity than the main hoppers. The method includes discharging ore charged in at least one of the plurality of main hoppers, and then sequentially charging the ore from a furnace center side toward a furnace wall side by using a rotating chute. After charging of the ore is started, only the ore is charged from the rotating chute at least until charging of 45 mass % of the ore is completed based on a total amount of the ore to be charged per batch; then, discharging of low-reactivity ore charged in the auxiliary hopper is started; and then, the low-reactivity ore is charged together with the ore from the rotating chute.

Method for charging raw materials into blast furnace

A power supply apparatus includes a frame having a plate-shape, electric wiring that transmits an electric signal or electric power, a guide unit that guides the electric wiring along a surface of the frame, and a facing member disposed at a position closer to the frame surface than that of the electric wiring to overlap the electric wiring. The guide unit includes first, second, and third guide members in contact with the electric wiring. The third guide member is in contact with the electric wiring from a side opposite to a side in which the first and second guide members are in contact with the electric wiring and is disposed at a position not in a region between the first and second guide members. The electric wiring is curved in a direction away from the facing member in the region between the first guide member and second guide member.

Power supply apparatus

A method for producing PAS having an average particle size of 50 &#x3bc;m or greater and 550 &#x3bc;m or less is provided. The method can include: (1) a preparation step of preparing a prepared mixture containing an organic polar solvent, a sulfur source, and a dihalo aromatic compound; (2) a pre-stage polymerization step of initiating a polymerization reaction by heating the prepared mixture to produce a prepolymer; (3) a phase separation step of adding water as a phase separation agent to a reaction mixture in a reaction system to form a phase separation state; and (4) a post-stage polymerization step of continuing the polymerization reaction after the phase separation step, in which an organic sulfonic acid metal salt having a specific solubility in water is contained in the prepared mixture or the reaction mixture.

A method for charging raw materials into a blast furnace is provided. The blast furnace includes a bell-less charging device that includes a plurality of main hoppers and an auxiliary hopper. The auxiliary hopper has a smaller capacity than the main hoppers. The method includes discharging ore charged in at least one of the plurality of main hoppers and then sequentially charging the ore from a furnace center side toward a furnace wall side by using a rotating chute. After charging of the ore is started, only the ore is charged from the rotating chute at least until charging of 15 mass % of the ore is completed based on a total amount of the ore to be charged per batch; then discharging of small-size coke charged in the auxiliary hopper is started; and then, the small-size coke is charged together with the ore from the rotating chute.

An analyzer apparatus () includes: an ionization unit () that ionizes molecules to analyze; a filter unit () that forms a field for selectively passing ions generated by the ionization unit; a detector unit () that detects ions that have passed through the filter unit; an ion drive circuitry () that electrically drives the ionization unit; a field drive circuitry () that electrically drives the filter unit; and a control unit () that controls outputs of the ion drive circuitry and the field drive circuitry, wherein the control unit controls the ion drive circuitry to ramp up and down a filament voltage supplied to a filament of the ionization unit when the analyzer apparatus starts and stops.

Analyzer apparatus and control method

An analyzer apparatus includes: an ionization unit that ionizes molecules to analyze; a filter unit that forms a field for selectively passing ions generated by the ionization unit; a detector unit that detects ions that have passed through the filter unit; an ion drive circuitry that electrically drives the ionization unit; a field drive circuitry that electrically drives the filter unit; and a control unit that controls outputs of the ion drive circuitry and the field drive circuitry, wherein the control unit controls the ion drive circuitry to ramp up and down a filament voltage supplied to a filament of the ionization unit when the analyzer apparatus starts and stops.

An imaging apparatusincludes an image acquisition unitand an image processing unitThe image acquisition unitacquires a face image. The image processing unitacquires a face image which has been acquired by the acquisition unitand has been adjusted by at least one type of adjustment and synthesizes a plurality of face images including the adjusted face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face has been set as a transparent region on the basis of a three-dimensional shape of the face.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium

An imaging apparatusincludes an image acquisition unit, an image processing unit, a mask image creation processing unit, and a processed image creation processing unit. The image acquisition unitacquires a face image. The image processing unitadjusts the brightness of the face image acquired by the image acquisition unit. The image processing unitcombines the face image acquired by the image acquisition unitwith the processed face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face is set as a transparent region on the basis of the reflection state of light emitted to the face.

An analyzer apparatus includes: an ionization unit that ionizes molecules to analyze; a filter unit that forms a field for selectively passing ions generated by the ionization unit; a detector unit that detects ions that have passed through the filter unit; an ion drive circuitry that electrically drives the ionization unit; a field drive circuitry that electrically drives the filter unit; a control unit that controls outputs of the ion drive circuitry and the field drive circuitry; a temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature of the ion drive circuitry and the field drive circuitry; and a correction unit that corrects output settings of the ion drive circuitry and the field drive circuitry based on the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit.

An image capture apparatus includes a skin map generation processing unit and an image composition unit. The skin map generation processing unit detects a skin color area in an image. The skin map generation processing unit detects a saturated area of high value and low saturation in the image. The image composition unit executes processing of correcting the skin color area detected by the skin map generation processing unit by using the saturated area detected by the skin map generation processing unit.

Method of detecting skin color area of human

A picking assistant system includes an article shelf in which articles are stocked, a projector displaying an instruction to a worker in a display region defined on the article shelf, and a processor. The processor detects a motion of a movable member which constitutes the article shelf and is configured to move when the article is taken out from the article shelf, and detects an operational error of the worker based on the detected motion of the movable member.

Picking assistant system

The purpose of the invention is to suppress image persistence. The structure if the invention is as follows: A liquid crystal display device comprising: scanning lines extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction, video signal lines arranged to cross the scanning lines, a pixel area is surrounded by the scanning lines and the video signal lines, a pixel electrode is formed in the pixel area, wherein conductive wirings are formed over the video signal lines via an organic insulating film in a plan view in the display area where images are displayed, a width in the first direction of the conductive wiring is bigger than a width in the first direction of the video signal line, an amount that the conductive wiring protrude the video signal line in a plan view is essentially the same in both side of the video signal line.

Liquid crystal display device that avoids influence on image quality due to residual ions

An electron microscope includes a secondary electron detector () which detects an electron generated when a sample () is illuminated with an electron beam from an electron gun (), a monitor () which displays a secondary electron image of the sample based on an output of the detector, a gas inlet device () which emits gas to the sample, and a gas control device () which controls a gas emitting amount of the gas inlet device so that a degree of vacuum in an intermediate chamber () in which the secondary electron detector is installed may be kept at less than a set value P1 during gas emission performed by the gas inlet device. Accordingly, a microscopic image of the sample in a gas atmosphere with use of the detector requiring application of voltage is obtained.

Electron microscope and sample observation method

Provided is a polishing liquid which contains a permanganate, a pH adjustor, and water and which is used for polishing of a SiC substrate. Also provided is a method of polishing a SiC substrate, the method including: a first polishing step of polishing the SiC substrate by use of a first polishing liquid containing a permanganate, inorganic salts having an oxidizing ability, and water; and a second polishing step of performing finishing polishing of the SiC substrate by use of a second polishing liquid containing a permanganate, a pH adjustor, and water after the first polishing step.

Polishing liquid and method of polishing SiC substrate

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Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Sato