Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making a microporous ceramic material using a metal silicon powder and including a reaction sintering process of the silicon. A material for forming a microporous ceramic material used in these methods includes a metal silicon powder, a silicon nitride powder and/or a silicon carbide powder, and if desired, a yttrium oxide powder and/or an aluminum oxide powder. These methods can make a microporous ceramic material that can be used preferably as a gas or liquid filter, a catalyst carrier or a support of a gas separation membrane.

Abstract: The ceramic product provided by the present invention is provided with at least two ceramic members bonded to each other, and the bond parts between these ceramic members bonded to each other are formed from glass having leucite crystals precipitated within the glass matrix.

Abstract: A passenger-seat airbag (32) includes a left airbag (44), a right airbag (46), and a root portion (48). A strap (70) is provided in the root portion (48) that is inflated by gas injected from an inflator (28) when a passenger-seat airbag device (10) operates. The strap (70) connects the base-end portion (48B) of the root portion (48) to a connection root portion (48C). Further, the strap (70) is provided such that a peripheral length (L2) on a front side is longer than or equal to a peripheral length (L1) on a rear side in a lateral view showing the inflated root portion (48).

Abstract: A metallic glass laminate of the present invention is characterized in that a metallic glass layer of amorphous phase is formed on the substrate surface, and there is no continuous pore (pinhole) through the metallic glass layer. The metallic glass laminate is preferably obtained by solidification and lamination of at least part of the metallic glass powder in the molten state or in the supercooled liquid state on the substrate surface. Because of the dense metallic glass layer of homogenous amorphous phase, the functionalities of metallic glass such as corrosion resistance and wear resistance can be satisfactorily provided. A thick and a large-area metallic glass layer can be formed. The metallic glass layer can also be formed into various shapes within the supercooled liquid temperature range. In addition, a metallic glass bulk can be obtained by removing the substrate.

Abstract: A passenger-seat airbag (32) includes a pair of left and right airbags (44, 46), and a root portion (48) that is connected to both of the left and right airbags (44, 46). When the passenger-seat airbag (32) is provided in a vehicle, an airbag folded portion (62) that forms the left and right airbags (44, 46) is positioned closer to the rear of the vehicle than the root portion (48) is, and a slack portion (49) that forms the root portion (48) is made upright along the airbag folded portion (62), and is positioned closer to the front of the vehicle than the airbag folded portion (62) is. Thus, the slack portion (49) is expanded and deployed toward a windshield earlier to form “a wall”. Then, the left and right airbags (44, 46) are stably deployed toward a passenger seat (toward the rear of the vehicle).

Abstract: A passenger-seat airbag includes a left airbag and a right airbag. A root portion connects a left-airbag root portion and a right-airbag root portion. An accordion-folded portion with relatively small folding widths is formed by accordion-folding both side portions of the root portion, whereby at least a gas-injection hole closest to each of both ends of an inflator in a longitudinal direction among a plurality of the gas-injection holes of the inflator is prevented from being closed by the root portion when the passenger-seat airbag is provided in a vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making a microporous ceramic material using a metal silicon powder and including a reaction sintering process of the silicon. A material for forming a microporous ceramic material used in these methods includes a metal silicon powder, a silicon nitride powder and/or a silicon carbide powder, and if desired, a yttrium oxide powder and/or an aluminum oxide powder. These methods can make a microporous ceramic material that can be used preferably as a gas or liquid filter, a catalyst carrier or a support of a gas separation membrane.

Abstract: It is one object of the present invention to improve the text editing operation provided by document creation application software. A text editing apparatus that is implemented by a computer under the control of document creation application software comprises: a document data controller for controlling a process for editing target document data read from a memory; and a document display controller for displaying a document, on a predetermined display device, based on the document data read by the document data controller, wherein, for each section constituting the document data, the document display controller provides a display area, and in accordance with the size of the display area, displays part of the document in the section.

Abstract: According to the module 10, the other end 22 of each of the plurality of porous cylindrical bodies 12 the one end 20 of each of which is closed is opened to the gas chamber 58 between the end cap 18 and the end cover 54, and the end cap 18 is provided with the through-hole 53 leading from the gas chamber 56 outward, and the gas chamber 58 leads outward by means of a path passing through the through-hole 53 and through the porous cylindrical body 12. The module 10 can have a gas-passing path from the peripheral wall 24 of the porous cylindrical-body 12 outward through the gas chamber 58 and through the through-hole 53.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing an aralkyl compound which comprises catalytically hydrogenating an aralkyl halide compound in a two-layer solvent system comprising water and water-insoluble organic solvent, a dehalogenation method of aralkyl halide compounds by subjecting to catalytic reduction in a two-layer solvent system comprising water and a water-insoluble organic solvent, and a method for recovering aralkyl compound from waste occurred in production of aralkyl halide compound by halogenation of aralkyl compound using the dehalogenation method.

Abstract: A forming die for a contact lens, wherein flat mutual contact areas (62) allowed to abut on each other on the outer peripheral side of a contact lens forming cavity (15) are formed to have a width of 0.01 mm or wider under the condition that a female die (12) mates a male die (14), a generally closed auxiliary cavity (64) filled with a polymerization monomer (66) is formed on the outer peripheral side of the mutual contact areas (62), and a tubular fitted part (60) allowing both the female and male dies (12) and (14) to be fitted to each other by tubular surfaces (30) and (50) extending in the die mating direction is formed on the outer peripheral side of the auxiliary cavity (64), whereby the forming cavity can be stably formed in the closed state by mating both the male and female dies each other so that the contact lens can be accurately and stably molded while preventing defective molding such as burrs.

Abstract: Memory cells each having a floating gate (4), control gate (6), and source and drain diffusion layers (7a, 7b) are formed on a silicon substrate (1). A silicon nitride film (10) by low-pressure CVD is maintained as side wall insulating films on side walls of the gates in each memory cell. A silicon nitride film (11) by plasma CVD is formed to cover a memory cell array, and silicon oxide films (12a, 12b) are made on the silicon nitride film (11) to form an inter-layer insulating film. A common source line (13) connected to the source diffusion layer 7a is formed to embed in the silicon oxide film (12a), and a bit line (14) connected to the drain diffusion layer (7b) is formed on the silicon oxide film (12b).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method of 4?-bromomethyl-2-cyanobiphenyl, which includes reacting 4?-methyl-2-cyanobiphenyl with bromine in the presence of a radical initiator and an oxidant. According to the present invention, since bromine can be regenerated by reacting hydrogen bromide, which is by-produced with the progress of bromination, with an oxidant, inhibition of bromination by hydrogen bromide, coloring by bromine and the like can be prevented. Thus, 4?-bromomethyl-2-cyanobiphenyl useful as a starting material of pharmaceutical products can be produced industrially beneficially.

Abstract: According to the module 10, the other end 22 of each of the plurality of porous cylindrical bodies 12 the one end 20 of each of which is closed is opened to the gas chamber 58 between the end cap 18 and the end cover 54, and the end cap 18 is provided with the through-hole 53 leading from the gas chamber 56 outward, and the gas chamber 58 leads outward by means of a path passing through the through-hole 53 and through the porous cylindrical body 12. The module 10 can have a gas-passing path from the peripheral wall 24 of the porous cylindrical-body 12 outward through the gas chamber 58 and through the through-hole 53.

Abstract: Memory cells each having a floating gate (4), control gate (6), and source and drain diffusion layers (7a, 7b) are formed on a silicon substrate (1). A silicon nitride film (10) by low-pressure CVD is maintained as side wall insulating films on side walls of the gates in each memory cell. A silicon nitride film (11) by plasma CVD is formed to cover a memory cell array, and silicon oxide films (12a, 12b) are made on the silicon nitride film (11) to form an inter-layer insulating film. A common source line (13) connected to the source diffusion layer 7a is formed to embed in the silicon oxide film (12a), and a bit line (14) connected to the drain diffusion layer (7b) is formed on the silicon oxide film (12b).

Abstract: It is one object of the present invention to improve the text editing operation provided by document creation application software. A text editing apparatus that is implemented by a computer under the control of document creation application software comprises: a document data controller for controlling a process for editing target document data read from a memory; and a document display controller for displaying a document, on a predetermined display device, based on the document data read by the document data controller, wherein, for each section constituting the document data, the document display controller provides a display area, and in accordance with the size of the display area, displays part of the document in the section.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for making a microporous ceramic material using a metal silicon powder and including a reaction sintering process of the silicon. A material for forming a microporous ceramic material used in these methods includes a metal silicon powder, a silicon nitride powder and/or a silicon carbide powder, and if desired, a yttrium oxide powder and/or an aluminum oxide powder. These methods can make a microporous ceramic material that can be used preferably as a gas or liquid filter, a catalyst carrier or a support of a gas separation membrane.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a production method of 4′-bromomethyl-2-cyanobiphenyl, which includes reacting 4′-methyl-2-cyanobiphenyl with bromine in the presence of a radical initiator and an oxidant. According to the present invention, since bromine can be regenerated by reacting hydrogen bromide, which is by-produced with the progress of bromination, with an oxidant, inhibition of bromination by hydrogen bromide, coloring by bromine and the like can be prevented. Thus, 4′-bromomethyl-2-cyanobiphenyl useful as a starting material of pharmaceutical products can be produced industrially beneficially.

Abstract: To provide a keyword search method and a keyword search terminal that can retrieve keywords efficiently. Indicators M1 and M2 are displayed on tree-like chart L that shows the logical structure of a document and titles of chapters Ta, sections Tb, and topics Tc, in the document when displaying search result, thereby denoting locations that include keywords specified by the user.

Abstract: Trenches are formed by using stripe-form patterns with the same width and the same interval as a mask in the surface area of a silicon substrate and element isolation regions of STI structure are formed by filling insulating films into the trenches. Further, slits for isolating floating gates are formed by etching a polysilicon layer by using stripe-form patterns with the same width and the same interval as a mask. In addition, control gates (word lines) are formed by subjecting the polysilicon layer to the anisotropic etching process by using stripe-form patterns with the same width and the same interval as a mask.