Abstract: A polarizable electrode body which has as a constituting member a paper-type body having activated carbon fiber and a fibrous binding medium as its composition, and also a electric double-layer capacitor having the polarizable electrode body as its constituting member. In comparison with a conventional simple polarizable electrode body of activated carbon fiber fabric, higher integration can be made and charged electric charge per unit volume can be increased, and the electric charge to be stored in the polarizable electrode body can be easily adjusted.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming an electrically conductive circuit comprising the steps of: preparing a transferring paper in which an assembly of electrically conductive foil carrying a predetermined pattern and an insulating layer containing glass frit and an overcoat layer consisting of a resin film having good burning property are provided on a transferring paper covered with a paste layer; removing an integral structure of the conductive foil, the insulating layer, and the overcoat layer from the transferring paper; transferring the removed integral structure onto a substrate; and burning the substrate with the integral structure set thereon at a temperature where the glass is soften. According to this method, it is possible to eliminate transformation or damage of a conductive foil where a conductive foil is singly disposed on a substrate.

Abstract: A burner has a combustion body supporting a platinum-group catalyst. An air-fuel mixture is supplied to the combustion body and combusted primarily on the upstream surface of the combustion body. A heat-transmissive body is disposed for discharging heat radiation from the upstream surface of the combustion body. The burner has a greater heat radiation efficiency and a wider range in which the amount of combustion is variable than conventional catalytic combustion burners.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor having polarizable electrodes including activated carbon fibers which are fully activated and have a large specific surface area, and a method for making the same. Each of the polarizable electrodes is composed of an activated carbon element having a surface fiber ratio (total geometric surface area of fabric/total geometric surface area of secondary fibers or strands) of 0.01 or more. Each activated carbon element is in the form of a woven fabric, nonwoven fabric, felt or the like including activated carbon fibers.

Abstract: A burner skeleton made of a composition including calcium aluminate and a silica compound. The calcium aluminate contains 15 to 40 wt % of lime, 35 to 80 wt % of alumina and 0.3 to 20 wt % of iron oxide. The composition may include titanium oxide.

Abstract: A planar heating unit comprises a base plate (1) having a surface electrically insulated by an insulation enamel layer (2a) or the like, a heating conductor (3) placed on the insulation surface of the base plate for generating Joule heat, and an enamel layer (4) fixing the heating conductor to the base plate (1) and covering the upper surface of the heating conductor.

Abstract: This invention relates to electric double layer capacitor utilizing electric double layer formed at interface between polarizable electrode and electrolyte, and carbon fibers or activated carbon fibers are used as polarizable electrode (17), and on the polarizable electrodes (17) consisting of the carbon fibers or activated carbon fibers conductive electrodes (18) as collectors are formed to constitute electrode parts.

Abstract: A molded solid fuel comprises a carbonaceous fuel material, a desulfurizing agent, and K.sub.2 CO.sub.3 and is effective to emit a reduced amount of sulfur when burned.

Abstract: A liquid fuel combustion apparatus comprises a fuel tank, a wick partially immersed in fuel in thetank, and a combustion chamber enclosing the upper portion of the wick. The wick has two sections, one section being composed of a gasifying wick element of a glass fiber material which contains at least at the top portion thereof 80% or more of silica, alumina or a mixture thereof. The other section is a suction wick element having good fuel sucking properties. The wick may be integrally constituted of a glass fiber material which contains at least the top portion thereof 80% or more of silica, alumina or a mixture thereof. The combustion chamber preferably includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder and a red heat cylinder provided between the inner and outer cylinders.

Abstract: A low melting enamel frit which comprises 31 to 39 wt % of SiO.sub.2, 13 to 21 wt % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, 14 to 21 wt % of Na.sub.2 O, 1 to 5 wt % of K.sub.2 O, 5 to 20 wt % of ZnO, 2 to 10 wt % of F.sub.2 and 2 to 9 wt % of at least one of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, ZrO.sub.2 and TiO.sub.2 provided that at least one intermediate oxide is present in an amount of 5 wt % in a maximum. The frit is capable of firing at temperatures lower than A.sub.1 transformation temperature of steel, say, 723.degree. C.

Abstract: A low melting, opaque enamel frit is described, which comprises 30 to 36 wt. % of SiO.sub.2, 15 to 20 wt. % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, 7 to 9 wt. % of Na.sub.2 O, 5 to 10 wt. % of ZrO.sub.2, 10 to 17 wt. % of TiO.sub.2, 7 to 15 wt. % of K.sub.2 O, 2 to 10 wt. % of F.sub.2 and 0.5 to 2.5 wt. % of P.sub.2 O.sub.5. The total of Na.sub.2 O and K.sub.2 O is in the range of 15 to 20 wt. % and the total of TiO.sub.2 and ZrO.sub.2 is in the range of 15 to 20 wt. %. The ZrO.sub.2 /(TiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2) ratio is in the range of 0.25 to 0.5:1 and the SiO.sub.2 /B.sub.2 O.sub.3 ratio is in the range of 1.5 to 2.4:1. In addition, the Na.sub.2 O/K.sub.2 O ratio is in the range of 0.6 to 1.0:1 and the (Na.sub.2 O+K.sub.2 O)/(TiO.sub.2 +ZrO.sub.2) is in the range of 0.7 to 1.2:1.

Abstract: A liquid fuel combustion apparatus for evaporating and vaporizing kerosene, gas oil or like liquid fuel by heating, admixing air with the vaporized fuel in a specified ratio and burning the resulting gaseous mixture in a combustion unit. The vaporizer for the liquid fuel comprises a liquid fuel drawing-up member (15) made of a heat-resistant porous body (8) or heat-resistant inorganic fiber fabric (9) for drawing up the liquid fuel, and a heat generating member (6) including coating layers (22, 23) of heat-resistant metal, heat-resistant alloy or heat-resistant metallic oxide for giving heat to the drawing-up member. To prevent formation of tar-like substances, a catalyst is preferably deposited on the surface of the drawing-up member and/or on the surface of the heat generating member. Further preferably, the outer periphery of the heat generating member (6) is in contact with the drawing-up member (5).

Abstract: In a method of forming porcelain enamel layer on a metal substrate, the method comprises steps of applying a first coating for an underlying ground layer and a second coating for overlying self-cleaning layer or coloring layer, and the method is characterized by firing both of said first coating and said second coating at the same time, forming a double layered porcelain enamel layer having an inter-layer wherein both layers are mixed, thus giving a sufficient bonding force inbetween as well as strong corrosion resistivity of the substrate due to few pinholes and bubbles in the underlying ground coating.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling humidity comprises a humidity sensing circuit including a humidity sensing element the electrostatic capacitance of which varies in accordance with the ambient relative humidity, and an air-conditioning system responsive to the sensed humidity. The humidity sensing element is charged and discharged repeatedly in accordance with a pulse train signal, and a period required for the voltage across the sensing element is measured during charging by a comparison between the voltage and a reference voltage. The pulse width or the reference voltage may be changed to select a desired reference humidity. A hysteresis characteristic may be given to render the operation of the circuit stable. When an SCR is controlled by the output signal of the humidity sensing circuit, the frequency of the pulse train signal is selected to be greater than four times the frequency of the voltage applied to the SCR.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an environmental condition sensor which is used to detect temperature etc., which sensor comprises an environmental condition sensor proper (1, 3,or 7), and a gas permeable structure (2 or 5) comprising .gamma.-MnO.sub.2, (Zn--Mn--FeO.sub.x) , and mAl.sub.2 O.sub.3.nCaO as the main composition thereof or an enamel layer (9) comprising .gamma.-MnO.sub.2, (Zn--Mn--FeOx), (.alpha.-Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.zeorite), and frit as the main composition thereof, which structure or layer surrounds the environmental condition sensor proper, so that carbon in oily smake and uncombustion gas striking the structure burns to prevent the oily smake and carbon from adhering to the environmental condition sensor proper (1, 3 or 7), whereby the degradation of the characteristics of the environmental condition sensor proper is avoided.

Abstract: This invention relates to a steam generator for evaporating from a vaporizing portion (17) thereof a liquid (12) sucked up by means of a liquid sucking-up member (10) to provide a steam generator which is capable of vaporizing a liquid efficiently in a short time by application of heat from a heating unit (13) and air fed from a fan (15).

Abstract: A variable capacitor, wherein at least one of its stator or rotor electrode is made of aluminum alloy or copper alloy and coated with a thin dielectric material layer containing fluorocarbon resin as its principal component by means of baking, is disclosed. The disclosed variable capacitor is particularly suited for a miniaturization of an appliance which adopts this variable capacitor. Careful qualification of the electrode materials, dielectric material, additional dielectric substance, and conditions for performing the baking and layer forming operation prevent the formation of the oxide film over the surface of the electrode material, and thus ensures a firm adherence of the layer to the substrate and a large maximum capacitance of the layer.

Abstract: An infrared radiator is disclosed which comprises a molded mass of an infrared radiating material and a frit material both in the form of powders which are fusingly bonded together on molding with or without use of a metallic substrate. Alternatively, the infrared radiator comprises a metallic substrate, an enamel coated layer formed on the substrate and made of a first material, the layer being roughened to have a certain level of surface roughness, and an infrared radiating material deposited on the enamel coated layer.

Abstract: A catalyst for purifying an exhaust gas comprising a carrier substantially composed of calcium aluminate and titanium oxide. The carrier is deposited with a platinum group metal or a metal oxide capable of oxidizing reductive gases into innoxious ones. The titanium oxide is applied on the surface of the carrier or incorporated in the carrier. The carrier may further comprise a transition metal oxide showing catalytic activity. A method of making a catalyst is also disclosed in which titanium oxide is applied on the surface of a solid mass of calcium aluminate.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved supported catalyst for gas purification which comprises a catalyst carrier composed of a molded body including alumina cement having a CaO component in an amount of less than 40% by weight, an Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 component in an amount of more than 35% by weight and an iron oxide component in an amount of less than 20% by weight. Additionally, catalytic materials and auxiliary materials may be added, depending on necessity. A platinum group metal is then supported on the catalyst carrier. There is also disclosed a method for manufacturing such catalyst. .Iadd.