Abstract: A catalyst for removing carbon monoxide (CO) in a hydrogen rich gas according to a water gas shift reaction is provided, which is characterized in that platinum and rhenium are supported on rutile titania as a support. This catalyst provides a high CO conversion at a relatively low reaction temperature between 200° C. and 300° C. and is excellent in cost/performance due to a reduction in amount of supported platinum. It is preferred that a weight ratio of an amount of supported platinum to an amount of supported rhenium is in a range of 3:1 to 1:1, and particularly 3:2. In addition, when the catalyst is produced by supporting rhenium first and then platinum on the support, the catalyst performance can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: An insecticide application to termites is obtained comprising at least one member selected from a plant, an extract of the plant, and an ooze (or exudate) of the plant, wherein the plant belongs to at least one genus selected from the group consisting of the genus Geranium, the genus Morus, the genus Artemisia, the genus Diospyros, the genus Crataegus, the genus Curcuma, the genus Rubia, the genus Polygonum, the genus Gardenia, the genus Cornus, the genus Uncaria, the genus Rheum, the genus Terminalia and the genus Saussurea. The extract may be a substance extracted with at least one member selected from the group consisting of water and a hydrophilic solvent. The insecticide exhibits high insecticidal and insect-controlling activity against insects (e.g., sanitarily injurious insects, insects injurious to houses and particularly to timber such as termites), being highly safe to human beings and animals and not adversely affecting the environment.

Abstract: A catalyst for removing carbon monoxide (CO) in a hydrogen rich gas according to a water gas shift reaction is provided, which is characterized in that platinum and rhenium are supported on rutile titania as a support. This catalyst provides a high CO conversion at a relatively low reaction temperature between 200° C. and 300° C. and is excellent in cost/performance due to a reduction in amount of supported platinum. It is preferred that a weight ratio of an amount of supported platinum to an amount of supported rhenium is in a range of 3:1 to 1:1, and particularly 3:2. In addition, when the catalyst is produced by supporting rhenium first and then platinum on the support, the catalyst performance can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: The insecticide of the present invention comprises at least one member selected from a plant, an extract of the plant, and an ooze (or exudate) of the plant, wherein the plant belongs to at least one genus selected from the group consisting of the genus Geranium, the genus Morus, the genus Artemisia, the genus Diospyros, the genus Crataegus, the genus Curcuma, the genus Rubia, the genus Polygonum, the genus Gardenia, the genus Cornus, the genus Uncaria, the genus Rheum, the genus Terminalia and the genus Saussurea. The extract may be a substance extracted with at least one member selected from the group consisting of water and a hydrophilic solvent. The insecticide exhibits high insecticidal and insect-controlling activity against insects (e.g., sanitarily injurious insects, insects injurious to houses and particularly to timber such as termites), being highly safe to human beings and animals and not adversely affecting the environment.

Abstract: A floorboard 5 is supported on bridge gate shaped piers 2 so as to move horizontally by rollers 4 provided at the corners of the floorboard. Rubber members 7 installed between the floorboard 5 and the piers 2 restoring force to restitute elastically the floorboard to a neutral position when the floorboard moves horizontally. A shaker 8, which is fixed on the floorboard 5, excites the floorboard linearly and reciprocally by a weight 12 movable along a ball screen shaft 11 with a motor 10. The inertia force of the floorboard 5 generates, in a real-size and real-time scale, vibration for a main structure to which a vibration-controlling damper 15 is installed. The vibration of the floorboard 5 is inputted to the damper 15 and the dynamic response of the damper is observed by a computer 14.

Abstract: An electroluminescent panel is provided in a region of the rear surface side of the display panel, which corresponds to a display region, and the drive circuit for the display panel is located in the other region than the display region, on the surface side of the display panel. Further, the inverter serving as a drive circuit for the electroluminescent panel is provided in the region of the rear surface side of the display panel, other than the display region. With this structure, the downsizing and thinning of the display device are promoted.

Abstract: A thermal recording material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing an electron donating colorless dye, an electron accepting compound and a diaryloxyalkane derivative represented by the following general formulae (I) to (III)Ar.sup.1 O (CH.sub.2).sub.n OAr.sup.2 (I)Ar.sup.2 O--W--OAr.sup.3 (II)Ar.sup.2 OR--X--ROAr.sup.3 (III)wherein Ar.sup.1 represents an aryl group having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of an alkoxyl group containing 2 or more carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group containing 3 or more carbon atoms, an aryloxyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkenyl group containing 2 or more carbon atoms, an aryl group containing 4 or more carbon atoms an acyloxyl group containing 2 or more carbon atoms, a fulorine atom, a bromine atom, a carboxyl group, an alkylenedioxy group, a cycloalkyl group and a hydroxyl group; Ar.sup.2 and Ar.sup.

Abstract: A stent for intracorporeal retention is inserted in a human body, for instance, inside an airway, esophagus, or bile duct, and used for preventing a bore of the internal organs described above from being occluded. With this stent, discharge from the airway does not easily adhere to, nor deposit on, the internal surface of the cylindrical body, so that the occlusion thereof can effectively be prevented and, at the same time, granulation does not easily occur and, for this reason, occlusion of the airway can be prevented, which insures a high degree of safety for a human body.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a process for treating timber, comprising the first step of immersing a high moisture content timber in an organic solvent compatible with water so as to remove water in the timber and make the organic solvent penetrate into the timber, and the second step of immersing the timber in a solution comprising a wood preservative and a high boiling point organic solvent, the solution being compatible with the organic solvent, so as to make the high boiling point organic solvent and the wood preservative penetrate into the timber, wherein timber is treated in a short period of time without a step of drying a high moisture content timber, and at the same time, cracking by drying at the step of drying a high moisture content timber is inhibited.

Abstract: Safe and quite active termiticidal compositions for controlling termites comprising an effective amount of a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, a C.sub.1-6 alkyl-carbonyl group, or C.sub.1-6 alkoxy-carbonyl group; or a salt thereof and an an agrochemically acceptable vehicle, are provided. Methods for eradicating termites are also provided. The termiticidal composition exhibits an excellent activity in eradicating termites.

Abstract: A process for producing microcapsules containing a diazonium salt compound, and a photofixation thermal recording material employing the same. The process comprises adding an organic solvent solution containing both the diazonium salt compound and a polyfunctional isocyanate compound to an aqueous solution of a water-soluble polymer, emulsifying the organic solvent solution into the aqueous solution using an emulsifying agent, and then polymerizing the polyfunctional isocyanate compound to form microcapsule walls, said emulsifying agent comprising an alkyl glucoside represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of 0 to 2 and R represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 4 to 18 carbon atoms.

Abstract: In a fire alarm system one of a fire receiver and terminal devices transmits the same signals in opposite transmission directions to first and second loop-signal lines. The remaining ones of the fire receiver and terminal devices receive the signals transmitted through the first and second loop-signal lines and detect whether there is an abnormality in transmission by detecting differences in the receiving times of the signals. Consequently, an abnormality of transmission is detected immediately. A fire receiver or terminal device which detects any abnormality immediately causes the first and second loop-signal lines connected with each other to form a signal loop-back path, thereby transmitting signals to the entire loop-signal line except to the position where the abnormality occurs. As a result, the reliability of signal transmission is significantly improved.

Abstract: A recording material which comprises a support having provided thereon capsules containing a photosensitive diazonium salt, and a polymerizable coupler. The recording material can give a predetermined hue when light, pressure, heat and the like are applied alone or in combination. The main advantages of the recording material are that a specific hue can be selected safely, mixing of colors can be avoided, desensitization problem does not occur and a fixed image can be obtained.

Abstract: A multi-color heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a support having thereon at least two heat-sensitive recording layers, each of which comprises a colorless or pale-color color forming agent which forms a color by heating, a color developer and a binder, an intermediate layer being incorporated between the two heat-sensitive recording layers and the intermediate layer comprising at least gelatin and/or a gelatin derivative and polyvinyl pyrrolidone and/or a polyvinyl pyrrolidone derivative, with the polyvinylpyrrolidone and/or the polyvinylpyrrolidone derivative having an average molecular weight of not more than 160,000, the content of which ranges from 1 to 20 percent by weight based on the weight of the gelatin and/or gelatin derivative.

Abstract: A base plate conveyor includes conveyance rollers for conveying a base plate to a prescribed position, and a base plate centering mechanism having right and left centerers for centering said base plate on said base plate conveyor. The conveyor further includes a device for moving the right and left centerer at a prescribed speed in a direction transverse to the direction of conveyance of the base plate. The moving device moves the centerers at the prescribed speed to such a position that the distance between the right and left centerers is slightly larger than a width of the base plate. The moving device thereafter moves the right and left centerers toward the base plate at a speed lower than the prescribed speed, such that the base plate is centered.

Abstract: An applying apparatus for applying films to a panel includes a film feed device for feeding leading edges of the films to a tentative applying position of applying the edges to the panel, an applying device for applying the films to the panel, and a movable panel conveyance device which is moved together with the applying device.

Abstract: A a fire protection system controls terminal units, or devices which are connected to the terminal units, according to a predetermined control command through control circulars provided at the terminal units. The terminal units have timer circuits which work a predetermined timing operation in response to reception of the control command, whereby the terminal units or the devices to be controlled are controlled during the time interval determined by the timing operation.

Abstract: A wood preservative composition which comprises a wood preservative in an amount of 0.01-10% by weight and a diphenylalkane compound represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are independently hydrogen or an alkyl, in an amount of not less than 1% by weight and in an amount of 1-1000 parts by weight in relation to one part by weight of the wood preservative.

Abstract: A diazo heat-sensitive recording material which comprises a support having thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer comprising a diazo compound, a coupling component, a basic substance, and a binder; wherein the coupling component is an acylacetanilide represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl; R.sub.2 is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aralkyl; R.sub.3 is substituted of unsubstituted alkyl, alkoxy, aralkyloxy, alkylthio, or aralkylthio, substituted amino, or halogeno; the total number of carbon atoms in R.sub.2 and (R.sub.3).sub.n is 5 or more; n is zero or an integer of from 1 to 4; and the R.sub.3 's may be the same or different when n is 2 or more, which is useful for forming a yellow color image and providing a developed color image with higher light-fastness, less soiling of a non-image area, and improved uniformity in color-developing layer due to the use of a more oil-soluble coupling component.

Abstract: A sticking apparatus in which a continuous film loaded on a film supply roller is cut off to a prescribed length and a base panel conveyed by a base panel conveyor is moved while said film is stuck, under pressure, to the plate by a pressure sticking roller. Support members for the roller are provided on the body of the apparatus so that the members can be moved rightward or leftward in order that the portion of the film, which is fed from the roller, and the other portion of the film, which is stuck to the plate, are made coincident with each other at the center line of the former portion in the direction of the feed thereof and that of the letter portion in the direction of the conveyance of the panel.