Abstract: A polyamide resin composition is provided, which has an excellent flowability upon molding and shows a high strength when subjected to various welding methods. The resin composition for use in molding comprises (A) 96 to 99.9% by weight of a crystalline polyamide resin and (B) 0.1 to 4% by weight of a non-crystalline, partially aromatic copolymerized polyamide resin containing at least two kinds of aromatic monomer components, with the total content of (A) and (B) being 100% by weight, or comprises (A), (B) and (C) 5 to 200 parts by weight of an inorganic filler per 100 parts by weight of sum of (A) and (B). The polyamide resin compositions show an excellent weld strength.

Abstract: A method for producing a painted ceramic body. A transfer material containing an inorganic pigment, or hot melt ink containing an inorganic pigment is directly or indirectly disposed on the surface of a ceramic body in an imagewise manner. Subsequently, the ceramic body with the image formed thereon is heated and the inorganic pigment contained in the image is sintered on the surface of the ceramic body.

Abstract: An image forming process including the steps of: (a) providing an image transfer material having a transfer recording layer formed from a heat transfer material and an image receiving sheet; (b) image-wisely applying a transferability promoting material to one of the heat transfer material and the image receiving sheet to form a latent image; and (c) applying pressure and heat to the image transfer material to form an image on the image receiving material from the latent image.

Abstract: In a second harmonic, single-mode laser having a resonator including a Cr-doped fluoride laser crystal, first and second wavelength-selecting elements and a nonlinear optical crystal between a pair of laser mirrors, a wavelength-selecting width of the first wavelength-selecting element is {fraction (1/30)} or less of that of the second wavelength-selecting element, the first wavelength-selecting element is provided with a reflection coating having a reflectivity of 10-30% to the oscillated laser beam, such that the wavelength selection width of the first wavelength-selecting element is 0.02-0.03 nm, a wavelength interval in the oscillation wavelength range of the first wavelength-selecting element is 0.8-1.3 nm, and a wavelength selection width of the second wavelength-selecting element is 1.0-1.6 nm.

Abstract: A ratio C of sonic speed in a fluid to a sinusoidal value at an incident angle of sonic waves from the pipe to the fluid is designated as a basic unknown quantity. A distance D between the opposite inner wall surfaces of the pipe, a thickness t.sub.p of the pipe wall, a projection length t.sub.w of sound rays in the oblique wedge projected onto a plane orthogonal to the center axis of the pipe, and sonic speed C.sub.w, C.sub.p in the oblique wedge and the pipe wall are used as given values. A propagation time .tau. of ultrasonic waves through the oblique wedge and the pipe wall is treated as a variable. The value C is determined in course of calculating a projection length L of sound rays between the ultrasonic transducers projected onto the center axis of the pipe by a gradual approximation, which is determined as a given value. Then, a refraction angle .theta..sub.f of sonic waves from the pipe wall to the fluid and a propagation time .tau.

Abstract: An injection welding material comprising: (A) 40 to 95% by weight of a polyamide copolymer comprising 2 to 25% by weight of polyamide 6 component and 98 to 75% by weight of polyamide 66 component and (B) 5 to 60% by weight of an inorganic filler; and an injection welding material comprising: (A) 100 parts by weight of a polyamide resin mixture comprising: (A1) 90 to 70% by weight of a polyamide copolymer comprising 2 to 25% by weight of polyamide 6 component and 98 to 75% by weight of polyamide 66 component and (A2) 10 to 30% by weight of polyamide 12 resin and (B) 5 to 150 parts by weight of an inorganic filler.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive recording material is described comprising a base having coated thereon microcapsules containing a solution including a benzhydrylsulfone type color former and an amine-hydrophobic alkylene oxide adduct.

Abstract: A desensitizer composition containing the amidine derivative shown by following general formula can be effectively used for partially desensitizing a developer sheet of pressure-sensitive copying papers using diphenylamine series color formers: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, an amino group, or an alkylthio group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of 2 to 6; said R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may have a substituent and when both R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are an alkyl group, at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is an alkyl group having a substituent.

Abstract: A desensitizer composition containing an imidazole derivative shown by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, an amino group, or an alkylthio group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms; and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each may be substituted, can be effectively used for partially desensitizing a developer sheet of pressure-sensitive copying papers, particularly where diphenylamine series color formers are used.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive recording material is described comprising a base paper having a surface of pH of at least 6.0 and having coated thereon microcapsules containing a benzhydrylsulfone type color former solution.

Abstract: A color developer containing a combination of zinc oxide, at least one salicylic acid or nuclear substituted salicylic acid, and at least one metal silicate as an inorganic pigment, and a recording unit having a layer of the color developer. The color developer has a high developing ability and is capable of forming a distinct color having a high light resistance when it is contacted with a color former.

Abstract: A desensitizer composition for color developing agents which color upon reaction with colorless compounds comprising an adduct of an amine represented by the following general formula (I) with one or more alkylene oxides, said one or more alkylene oxides comprising at least 40 mole % butylene oxide: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, m represents zero or an integer from 1 to 8, and n represents an integer from 1 to 12. A method of using the same is also disclosed.

Abstract: A color developing ink containing a phenolic resin or a metal salt of an aromatic carboxylic acid and an alcohol having from 10 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Color developing ink suitable for pressure-sensitive recording, especially applicable to printing machines utilizing relief and offset printing techniques, which comprises (i) at least one proton-releasing or electron accepting solid acid selected from the group consisting of phenol resins, aromatic carboxylic acids and the metal salts thereof, and (ii) an aliphatic ester containing 8 to 25 carbon atoms, and which has stable printing aptitude and adequate color developing ability, does not swell a rubber roll installed in a printing machine and can provide colored image with excellent light resistance.

Abstract: Desensitizer compositions which reduce or extinguish the capability of developers to color colorless compounds which comprise one or more desensitizers and one or more compounds having an absorption peak in the wavelength region of from about 300 m.mu. to about 400 m.mu. and a molecular absorption coefficient of above about 2000.

Abstract: A recording sheet comprising a support having thereon a layer of a color developer capable of forming a developed color image in the presence of a color former, wherein the color developer layer contains (1) a dimer of a compound of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group, and n is an integer of 1 to 4, as a color developer, and (2) an oil adsorptive inorganic pigment.

Abstract: A developing ink comprising a developer, a polyester resin binder and a liquid medium. The polyester resin binder is a thermoplastic linear polymeric compound having preferably a molecular weight of about 5,000 to 50,000 and a melting point of about 90 to 170.degree. C.

Abstract: A desensitizing composition used for a recording material capable of forming a color image by the reaction of a colorless color former and an adsorbent, which contains at least one compound obtained by the addition reaction of an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid derivative or an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated ketone with an amine, is disclosed. A method of desensitizing an adsorbent contained in a recording material which comprises using such composition is also disclosed.

Abstract: A desensitizing composition for a color developer capable of coloring a substantially colorless color former, which desensitizing composition contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R has from 2 to 20 carbon atoms and represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group or a ##STR2## group; m is 0 or an integer of 1 to 3; n is an integer of 2 to 6; the sum of a, b and c is an integer of 3 to 100, the sum of a, b, c and d is an integer of 4 to 100; the sum of p, q and r is an integer of 3 to 100; and the sum of p, q, r and s is an integer of 4 to 100.

Abstract: A process for producing a locally desensitized color developer sheet which comprises using a desensitizer composition having a contact angle of not less than 15.degree. with hydrophobic non-image areas of a lithographic pringing plate and having a wetting action with the hydrophilic image areas of said plate. Using a hydrophilic image lithographic plate to selectively desensitize a color developer sheet using the desensitizer composition.