Abstract:
Provided is a natural leather having a novel coating layer which feels leathery. The coating film retains material properties such as strength and wearing resistance. When the user directly touches the natural leather, the coating layer present on the surface of the natural leather gives slick characteristics of natural leathers and smoothness. The natural leather has a coating film formed on a surface thereof, the coating film including: a color coat layer formed from a mixture of a hard component (10% modulus is more than 2.3 but no more than 3.0) and a soft component (10% modulus is more than 0.0 but no more than 1.0) of a two-component polyurethane resin; and a topcoat layer formed from a mixture of a medium component (resin having a 10% modulus of more than 1.0 but no more than 2.3) and a soft component (resin having a 10% modulus of more than 0.0 but no more than 1.0) of a two-component polyurethane resin.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for semantic knowledge assessment, instruction, and acquisition are disclosed. In one embodiment a computer-implemented method for language instruction includes determining a lexical recognition ability level of a user within a lexicon of a particular language. This method further includes, based on item recognizability, creating a target list of unknown lexical items. The target list can be sorted by ranking the importance of the unknown lexical items within the particular lexicon. The method also includes generating a personal language learning sequence for the user based, at least in part, on the target list.
Abstract:
A double-wall pipe includes an outer pipe, and an inner pipe disposed inside the outer pipe. An outer wall of the inner pipe has thereon a ridge portion, which defines a groove portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the inner pipe. The outer pipe and the inner pipe are bent to have a straight portion extending straightly, and a bend portion bent from the straight portion. In the straight portion, the outer pipe has an inside diameter that is larger than an outside diameter of an imaginary cylinder defined by an outer surface of the ridge portion of the inner pipe. Furthermore, the ridge portion of the inner pipe contacts an inside surface of the outer pipe to be radially squeezed and held by the outer pipe, in the bend portion. The double-wall pipe can be suitably used for a refrigerant cycle device.
Abstract:
A fuel cell configuration operable to provide a more uniform heat distribution within the fuel cell configuration is disclosed. A reactant gas, liquid or suspended solid (slurry) is circulated through the fuel cell configuration in such a manner that inherently hotter portions of the fuel cell are cooled. The more uniform heat distribution can enhance fuel cell life and operating characteristics.
Abstract:
A communication quality evaluation system, a device, a method, and a program for evaluating communication quality at an arbitrary location, in the form which can actually felt by a user, are provided. According to an instruction from an evaluator, a control device displays a map or layout diagram of a specified area on a map/layout diagram display device and specifies an evaluation point within a display range of the map or the layout diagram. According to the network quality estimated by a network quality estimation unit, a network quality simulation unit for estimating the network quality when communications are performed at the evaluation point deteriorates the evaluation data and transmits the data to an evaluation device. The evaluation data deteriorated is a sample of data actually transmitted and received in the communication system. The evaluation device uses a communication device actually used by a user in the communication system.
Abstract:
A polyester resin toner binder which gives a toner with good anti-blocking property at high temperature and high humidity and good low-temperature fixing ability. The present invention is directed to a toner binder for developing electrostatic charge images, which binder comprises a condensation-polymerization polyester resin, the polyester resin being a product formed in the presence of a catalyst (a) represented by the following general formula (I): Ti(—X)m(—OR)n (I) wherein R is H or a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms which may contain from 1 to 3 ether bonds and/or from 1 to 2 hydroxyl groups; X is a residue formed by removing H of one carboxyl group from an aromatic mono- or polycarboxylic acid, provided that in the case of a polycarboxylic acid, a carboxyl group other than said one carboxyl group may intra molecularly polycondense with an OR group in the same molecule to form a ring structure or may form a structure where it has polycondensed intermolecularly with an OR group in another molecule; m=1 to 3, n=1 to 3, and the sum of m and n is 4.
Abstract:
A method is provided for controlling an electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus including a USB interface that is used for connecting a USB device of a first device class in a first operation mode controlled by a first control program. The method includes reading, upon connection of a USB device of a second device class different from the first device class to the USB interface, a second control program for controlling a second operation mode from the connected USB device; and starting the second operation mode by storing in a storage unit the second control program and executing the second control program.
Abstract:
A method of crystallizing a semiconductor film including splitting a pulse laser beam oscillated from a laser oscillator, and synthesizing the split pulse laser beams after the split pulse laser beams have propagated through optical paths different in optical path length, modulating the synthesized pulse laser beam into a pulse laser beam by a phase modulating element, and irradiating a non-single-crystal film formed on a substrate with the laser beam to crystallize the non-single-crystal film. Splitting the pulse laser beam and synthesizing the split pulse laser beams are performed using at least three optical splitting/synthesizing units arranged in order, and include sequentially splitting one pulse laser beam split by one optical splitting/synthesizing unit by succeeding splitting/synthesizing unit, and synthesizing the other pulse laser beam split by one optical splitting/synthesizing unit with the other pulse laser beam split by preceding splitting/synthesizing unit.
Abstract:
A bat for baseball or softball includes a core member having a depression at a portion to be a ball-hitting portion, and an elastic body attached to the depression and forming the ball-hitting portion. The elastic body is formed of urethane elastomeric foam having specific gravity of at least 0.45 and at most 0.60, JIS C hardness of at least 54 and at most 82, and modulus of elasticity in 300% elongation of at least 3.85 MPa and at most 5.6 MPa.
Abstract:
A peripheral unit is controlled by means of a driver in another apparatus, where an instruction sent to the peripheral unit contains both data produced by the driver and data produced by another application in the other apparatus. This is done by subjecting the instruction received from the other apparatus to processing in which the data produced by the other application is deleted.