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The invention relates to a control and communication system and method for objects, the system comprising an object space-information database in an object centre of the object, the database storing an object plan for the object, wherein the control of the object is adjusted to the object plan, a regional control centre having a regional space-information database storing a regional plan, and a main control centre having a central space-information database storing a central plan. The central plan approved by the regional control centres is prepared by the main control centre, the regional plans are updated at the regional control centres on the basis of the central plan, and the object plans are updated at the object centres on the basis of the regional plans.

In a disk array device for cooling respective sections including a HDD by a fan, drop of cooling efficiency by the difference of conditions of HDD mounted and unmounted sections is prevented and the use of a dummy HDD is deleted/eliminated. A housing contains a HDA mounted on the HDD, a power controller board for performing control to the HDD, a power unit for supplying power to each section, a fan for cooling the housing therein, and a backboard for connecting all the sections. On one backboard surface, the HDA is mounted, which has a cooling function for making cooling air flowing in the housing and exhausting air from the housing via a region on which the HDA are mounted and via a vent hole on the backboard. For the vent hole, a shutter is mounted, which has a mechanism for adjusting an open area rate of the vent hole by opening when the HDA is mounted and closing when removed.

Provided is an aqueous binder for inorganic fibers, which is formaldehyde-free, has excellent strength, and is suitable for use under conditions of weakly acidic to weakly basic, and by which a cured product composed of the binder having excellent strength is obtained, and an thermal and/or acoustical insulation material made of inorganic fiber using the same. The thermal and/or acoustical insulation material is molded by using an aqueous hinder for inorganic fibers including: an acrylic resin with an acid value of 350 to 850 mgKOH/g; a crosslinking agent containing at least one dialkanolamine; and a curing accelerator, in which a molar ratio of the total number of the hydroxyl groups and imino groups in the crosslinking agent to the total number of carboxyl groups in the acrylic resin is 0.8:1 to 1.5:1, and in which pH of the hinder is adjusted to 6.0 to 8.0 with a volatile basic compound.

A method for producing an LPG fraction, a gasoline fraction, a kerosene fraction, a gas oil fraction, monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and a non-aromatic naphtha fraction from hydrocracked oil includes hydrocracking hydrocarbon oil containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon to convert into a light hydrocarbon fraction, and efficiently and selectively producing monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with higher valuable alkylbenzenes. The method for producing hydrocarbon fraction comprises subjecting hydrocarbon feedstock containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and in which the ratio of carbons constituting an aromatic ring to the total carbons in the hydrocarbon oil (the aromatic ring-constituting carbon ratio) is 35 mole % or more to catalytic cracking in the presence of hydrogen. 40% or more of a fraction with a boiling point of 215° C. or higher in the hydrocarbon feedstock is converted into a fraction with a boiling point lower than 215° C., producing hydrocracked oil containing 30 vol % or more of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.

A synergistic insecticidal composition is formed containing a Chloronicotynyle compound and a Pyrethroids compound. The Chloronicotynyle compound is provided in an amount preferably ranging from 0.1 to 5.0% by weight of the synergistic insecticidal composition. The Pyrethroids compound is provided in an amount preferably ranging from 1 to 60% by weight of the synergistic insecticidal composition. The synergistic insecticidal composition also preferably includes 35 to 98.90% by weight of conventional agriculturally acceptable carrier(s) and/or excipients.

The present invention is to provide an electromagnetic wave shielding material including a transparent substrate and a convex pattern layer composed of a conductive composition formed in a prescribed pattern on the transparent substrate, wherein the conductive composition contains conductive particles and a binder resin; and in observation of a transverse cross section of the convex pattern layer by electron microscopic photography, at least a part of the conductive particles has a fused continuation and a method for manufacturing the same. The electromagnetic wave shielding material and the method for manufacturing the same include a configuration capable of achieving a lower surface resistivity in an electromagnetic wave shielding material which is required to achieve a much more reduction in a line width of the pattern, specifically, a reduction to a line width of not more than 30 μm, and more preferably not more than 15 to 20 μm and a treatment method capable of reducing the surface resistivity by an easy and short-time treatment.

The invention provides adhesive tape for wafer processing, which has uniform expansion suitable for application for truncating cement layers through expansion and sufficient shrinkage shown in a heating contraction process and results in no unfavorable conditions due to relaxation after the heating contraction process. The expansive adhesive tape 10 which is suitably applied for truncating a cement layer (13) along the wafer through expansion has a base material film 11 which is made of thermoplastic crosslinking resin provided with a Vickers softening point more than 50 DEG but less than 90 DEG as specified in JIS K7206 and having a stress increased over 9 MPa due to heating contraction.

A radiation sterilization method of a disposable medical device and a manufacturing method are provided, which method comprising the steps of packaging a disposable medical device, which has applied thereto with hydrophilic polymer coating, with a gas permeable packaging material, controlling a product moisture content of the thus packaged medical device by maintaining the device in a given humidity atmosphere for not less than a time at which an equilibrated moisture content is reached, and subjecting, to radiation sterilization, the medical device whose product moisture content has been controlled, so that an eluted matter is reduced in amount and a sliding performance is ensured according to the radiation sterilization method of the hydrophilic polymer-coated, disposable medical device and the manufacturing method.

A thermoelectric conversion material is provided which stably exhibits high thermoelectric conversion performance at about 300 to 600° C. and has high physical strength, resistance to weathering, durability, stability, and reliability. A method for manufacturing the same, and a thermoelectric conversion element are also provided. Also provided is a thermoelectric conversion material produced using, as a raw material, silicon sludge which has had to be disposed of in landfill. The thermoelectric conversion material of the invention is characterized by containing, as a main component, a sintered body composed of polycrystalline magnesium silicide containing at least one element selected from As, Sb, P, Al, and B. The manufacturing method uses purified and refined silicon sludge.

[Object] This invention relates to crystal glass article not containing lead or barium that can be chemical strengthened easily and that is highly alkali-resistant and equivalent to lead crystal glass in quality.

[Solving Means] Crystal glass article that can be chemical strengthened easily and that is highly alkali-resistant and equivalent to lead crystal glass in quality can be produced with a glass composition containing:

• • 62% to 65% by weight of SiO₂;
  • 2% to 3.2% by weight of Al₂O₃;
  • 10% to 12% by weight of Na₂O;
  • 8% by weight to less than 10.0% by weight of K₂O;
  • 3% to 4.2% by weight of CaO;
  • 2% to 3.2% by weight of SrO;
  • 6% to 7.2% by weight of ZnO;
  • 2.2% to 3% by weight of TiO₂;
  • 0% to 0.4% by weight of Sb₂O₃; and
  • 0% to 1.2% by weight of SnO₂+Y₂O₃+La₂O₃+ZrO₂.

In view of the demand to replace wood pulp to preserve forests which is brought about by the recent trend to preserve natural resources from the terrestrial warming or the environmental pollution, this disclosure provides a yarn using cellulose-based filament yarn made from bamboo. This is achieved by a fiber yarn which is a yarn containing a filament of cellulose-based fiber made from a bamboo having a thickness of about 10 to about 600 dtex and number of twist of 0 to about 3,000 T/M.

Disclosed is an electrophotographic recording medium that contains a support and an olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer, wherein the olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer exists at least near the surface of the electrophotographic recording medium on which an image is recorded, and the electrophotographic recording medium is reusable; and a method for producing an electrophotographic recording medium, an image forming method, a method for repeatedly using an electrophotographic recording medium, and a method for repeatedly using an electrophotographic recording medium.

The invention discloses a real-time monitoring method for growth characters of tea trees in intensive cultivation. The method comprises the following steps: performing real-time data acquisition by a tea tree living body growth character data acquisition device based on online location, transmitting the acquired data to an artificial comprehensive management center through a wireless communication way to process, wherein the acquired data comprises current location data acquired by a locating mechanism, fresh tea leaves spectrum data acquired by a high spectrum imaging sensor, and average growth height of fresh tea leaves measured by an ultrasonic wave sensor, and judging the best fresh tea leaf picking time based on that the data and a picking judgment model established off line are combined by the artificial comprehensive management center. The picking judgment model comprises a bud size growth measurement model based on average growth height, a yield correlation model and a quality correlation model based on the high spectrum image data. The real-time monitoring method for the growth characters of the tea trees in intensive cultivation is beneficial to realizing of intensive cultivation and automation in planting of the tea trees.

A toner including a binder resin, a colorant, and a silicon-containing polymer, which is manufactured by a method including: discharging a toner constituent liquid including toner constituents including the binder resin, the colorant, and the silicon-containing polymer, from at least one discharge opening to form liquid droplets thereof; and converting the liquid droplets into solid toner particles in a granulation space.

The invention provides a detergent, useful for removal of pigment-dispersive photosensitive resin. Compared with previous products, the detergent of the invention develops cleaning effect with less amount and is difficult to arouse aggregation and sinking of detergent. The said detergent is characteristic in that it contains more than two of aromatic compounds having at least one alkyl, wherin the total number of carbon atoms of all alkyl groups is 3-5.

A method for producing colored polymer particles, including adding a colorant-containing composition containing a radically polymerizable monomer and a colorant in a supercritical fluid or a subcritical fluid and polymerizing the radically polymerizable monomer, so as to produce colored polymer particles which are insoluble in the supercritical fluid or subcritical fluid, wherein the supercritical fluid or subcritical fluid is a supercritical fluid or subcritical fluid in which at least the radically polymerizable monomer is soluble, but polymer particles resulted from polymerization of the radically polymerizable monomer are insoluble, and wherein the colorant is at least one selected from the group consisting of a pigment, a dye and a polymer dye.

A method of producing a hollow fiber membrane includes discharging a polyvinylidene fluoride solution comprising a polyvinylidene fluoride resin and a poor solvent at a temperature above a phase separation temperature into a cooling bath at a temperature below the phase separation temperature to coagulate the polyvinylidene fluoride resin. The hollow fiber membrane comprises a polyvinylidene fluoride resin having spherical structures that have an average diameter in the range of 0.3 to 30 μm.

A method and apparatus capable of displaying a high-quality image using a reversible image display medium in which a cell(s) formed between two substrates accommodates at least two kinds of frictionally chargeable dry developing particles having different chargeable polarities and different optical reflection densities in image display, an electric field strength of, e.g., 0.3 V/μm to 3.0 V/μm is applied to the developer. An oscillating force (e.g. oscillating magnetic filed) is applicable and the oscillating force is substantially stopped during application of the electrostatic field. After completion of the electrostatic field, the surface of the medium on the image observation side may be charged to a potential holding the displayed image. Optionally, before image display, an alternating electric field may be applied to stir the developer for initialization of the medium.