Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining single-use bioactive ingredients using a specific extraction process and new bioactive ingredients from renewable sources, in particular from the Amazon region, that can be used to prepare cosmetic compositions for treating skin, hair and/or scalp. Said bioactive ingredients are obtained by means of a subcritical-water extraction process parameterized to obtain bioactive compounds from different species and different plant components.

Abstract: A hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet exhibiting a beautiful coating appearance with metallic luster, in which no spangle or very fine spangles are formed, and having excellent blackening resistance and a method for manufacturing the hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet are provided. The hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet includes a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating layer containing 1.0 to 10 percent by mass of Al, 0.2 to 1.0 percent by mass of Mg, 0.005 to 0.1 percent by mass of Ni, and the balance being Zn and incidental impurities on at least one surface of a steel sheet. The manufacturing method includes the steps of dipping the steel sheet into a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating bath and pulling up and cooling the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet pulled up from the coating bath is cooled to 250° C. at a cooling rate of 1° C. to 15° C./sec.

Abstract: A hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet exhibiting a beautiful coating appearance with metallic luster, in which no spangle or very fine spangles are formed, and having excellent blackening resistance and a method for manufacturing the hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet are provided. The hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coated steel sheet includes a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating layer containing 1.0 to 10 percent by mass of Al, 0.2 to 1.0 percent by mass of Mg, 0.005 to 0.1 percent by mass of Ni, and the balance being Zn and incidental impurities on at least one surface of a steel sheet. The manufacturing method includes the steps of dipping the steel sheet into a hot-dip Zn—Al alloy coating bath and pulling up and cooling the steel sheet, wherein the steel sheet pulled up from the coating bath is cooled to 250° C. at a cooling rate of 1° C. to 15° C./sec.

Abstract: A stainless steel separator having gas channels including grooves and projections for fuel cells. The separator has a composition including about 0.03 mass percent or less of carbon; about 0.03 mass percent or less of nitrogen, the total content of carbon and nitrogen being about 0.03 mass percent or less; about 16 mass percent to about 45 mass percent chromium; about 0.5 mass percent to about 3.0 mass percent molybdenum; and the balance being iron and incidental impurities. The separator has a contact resistance of about 100 m&OHgr;·cm2 or less. Preferably, the projections have an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra in the range of about 0.01 to about 1.0 &mgr;m and a maximum height Ry in the range of about 0.01 to about 20 &mgr;m. The stainless steel separator preferably further includes about 0.001 to about 0.1 mass percent silver. A fuel cell including this separator exhibits a stable output voltage for a long period of time.

Abstract: This invention provides a laminated resin material comprising (1) a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer made by a dispersion method, (2) a gas impermeable resin layer on the fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer, and (3) an adhesive resin layer having a melt viscosity of not more than 5000 Pa.s under a shear rate of 10 s−1 at 150° C. and not more than 250 Pa.s under a shear rate of 2000 s−1 at 150° C. on the gas impermeable resin layer. Among them, a laminated resin material in which the fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer made by the dispersion method is an expansion molded stampable sheet and which has a skin material further on the adhesive resin layer is a material excellent in both of the characteristics of adhesion and rigidity and suitable as automotive interior materials.

Abstract: This invention provides a laminated resin material comprising (1) a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer made by a dispersion method, (2) a gas impermeable resin layer on the fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer, and (3) an adhesive resin layer having a melt viscosity of not more than 5000 Pa.s under a shear rate of 10 s−1 at 150° C. and not more than 250 Pa.s under a shear rate of 2000 s−1 at 150° C. on the gas impermeable resin layer. Among them, a laminated resin material in which the fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin layer made by the dispersion method is an expansion molded stampable sheet and which has a skin material further on the adhesive resin layer is a material excellent in both of the characteristics of adhesion and rigidity and suitable as automotive interior materials.

Abstract: A fuel cell separator including (a) about 100 parts by weight of graphitized meso-carbon microbeads, (b) about 10 to 35 parts by weight of one of a thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic resin, and (c) about 1 to 40 parts by weight of at least one carbonaceous material selected from the group consisting of graphite powder, carbon black, and fine carbon fibers. The fuel cell separator exhibits low electrical resistivity, low volume resistivity, superior gas impermeability, and superior dimensional accuracy without a graphitizing treatment after molding. A fuel cell using the fuel cell separators can be produced while saving energy using a simplified facility and has superior generation efficiency.

Abstract: A stainless steel separator having gas channels including grooves and projections for fuel cells. The separator has a composition including about 0.03 mass percent or less of carbon; about 0.03 mass percent or less of nitrogen, the total content of carbon and nitrogen being about 0.03 mass percent or less; about 16 mass percent to about 45 mass percent chromium; about 0.5 mass percent to about 3.0 mass percent molybdenum; and the balance being iron and incidental impurities. The separator has a contact resistance of about 100 m&OHgr;·cm2 or less. Preferably, the projections have an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra in the range of about 0.01 to about 1.0 &mgr;m and a maximum height Ry in the range of about 0.01 to about 20 &mgr;m. The stainless steel separator preferably further includes about 0.001 to about 0.1 mass percent silver. A fuel cell including this separator exhibits a stable output voltage for a long period of time.

Abstract: A screw adapted for plasticizing a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin wherein screw lead (distance of the resin advancement in the direction of the axis per 1 revolution of the screw when it is postulated that the screw channel is 100% filled with the resin) of the screw in its compression section decreases in the direction toward the forward end of the screw. A plasticizing apparatus wherein such screw is mounted. A method for molding a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin by using such an apparatus. A molded article produced by such molding method. In the present invention, shear force of sufficient level can be obtained to avoid the formation of clumps while breakage of the reinforcing fibers is avoided to leave long fibers in the molded article. The resulting molded article has excellent mechanical properties, and such article is quite useful as a material for use in automobile parts and other parts.

Abstract: A full-spectrum, multi-mode radio receiver provides truly continuous coverage of reception of radio signals in a variety of modes or formats, and in a frequency range extending from about 10 kHz to about 2600 MHz. That is, there or no frequencies or frequency bands within which reception is not possible or is possible only with a reduced performance of the radio receiver, because of spurs, inter-modulation products, or images. The radio receiver provides this broad-spectrum, continuous coverage of reception, and does so with a receiver front-end tuning selectivity to as little as 1 Hz.

Abstract: As a paper-made stampable sheet having a high rigidity and, if necessary, improved adhesiveness and non-permeability and a light weight stampable sheet shaped body made from this sheet and a method of producing the same, there are proposed a paper-made stampable sheet obtained by paper-making a mixture of thermoplastic resin and reinforcing fibers to obtain a sheet-like web, piling a thermoplastic resin film of a single layer or multi layer or an organic fiber nonwoven fabric having at least one excellent property selected from rigidity, non-permeability and adhesiveness on at least one-side surface of the sheet-like web in accordance with use purpose, compressing them under heating above a melting point of the thermoplastic resin constituting the web, cooling and solidifying at a compressed state as well as a light weight stampable sheet shaped body made from this sheet and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: This invention provides the following resin composition, method for producing the composition, resin slide material, organic solvent resist material and glass fiber reinforced composition obtained therefrom. A polycarbonate/polyolefin based resin composition exhibiting an improved polycarbonate/polyolefin compatibility prepared by melt kneadin (A) a polycarbonate resin; (B) a polyolefin resin; (C) a polyolefin resin that has been modified with at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of epoxy, carboxyl, and an acid anhydride groups; (D) a compound represented by the formula: HOOC--R--NH.sub.2 wherein R represents at least one member selected from the group consisting of an alkene group, an alkylidene group, and an oligomethylene group containing 5 or more carbon atoms, and phenylene group and naphthylene group optionally substituted with an alkyl group; and optionally, (E) a styrene copolymer resin.

Abstract: When producing a graft modified polyolefin by melting and kneading a polyolefin, a radical-polymerizable monomer and a radical-polymerization initiator, the producing efficiency is improved. The grafting reaction is effected by feeding the melted polyolefin containing either one of said radical-polymerizable monomer and the radical-polymerization initiator to the other. When said radical-polymerizable monomer is an unsaturated carboxylic anhydride, said unsaturated carboxylic anhydride as a starting material is preliminarily heated at 50.degree. to 250.degree. C., and then fed to the grafting reaction mentioned above. When the monomer is an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an acid anhydride of such an unsaturated carboxylic acid, an organic peroxide of a formula (I) is used as the radical-polymerization initiator. ##STR1## In this formula (I), two substituting groups connected directly to the benzene ring have an ortho-positional relationship or a meta-positional relationship, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.

Abstract: This invention provides the following resin composition, method for producing the composition, resin slide material, organic solvent resist material and glass fiber reinforced composition obtained therefrom. A polycarbonate/polyolefin based resin composition exhibiting an improved polycarbonate/polyolefin compatibility prepared by melt kneadin (A) a polycarbonate resin; (B) a polyolefin resin; (C) a polyolefin resin that has been modified with at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of epoxy, carboxyl, and an acid anhydride groups; (D) a compound represented by the formula: HOOC--R--NH.sub.2 wherein R represents at lease one member selected from the group consisting of an alkene group, an alkylidene group, and an oligmethylene group containing 5 or more carbon atoms, and phenylene group and naphthylene group optionally substituted with an alkyl group; and optionally, (E) a styrene copolymer resin.

Abstract: A method and system in which television-program table information is transmitted using teletext formats in a coding transmission system. On the reception side, reservation of video recording with an image recording apparatus is effected by making use of the transmitted television-program table information. Reserving a recording time is accomplished using a program recognition device 9 which detects that the television-program table information has been transmitted. Further, a program update recognition device 10, a channel information processing device 11, a date information processing device 12, a time information processing device 13, a program code information processing device 14, and a title information processing device 15 serve to process their respective information in order to display the television program table on a display unit. Once displayed, a television program desired for video recording is selected by a cursor display device and selection device 19.

Abstract: Television program information contained in an extracted text broadcast signal is selected and input to a video cassette recording device. The recording program information includes recording times and program titles. The recording device includes a timer for starting the recording of the television program on a tape in accordance with the recording information, an index detector for detecting an index along the tape to identify a section in the tape where the television program is recorded, a rewind controller for rewinding the tape to its initial position, a writing arrangement for writing the recording information of the recorded program together with the index information at the initial position of the tape, and a fast forward controller for advancing the tape to the end of the recorded section identified by the index. The recording information written at the initial position of the tape can be displayed on a screen to indicate the contents of the tape.

Abstract: A text broadcast receiver includes a data extraction circuit for extracting a data block in an encoded transmission-format text broadcast signal multiplexed to a vertical blanking period of a video signal, a data group construction circuit for constructing a data group by assembling a plurality of extracted data blocks, a data identifier for passing identifying the data group containing a television program table, a memory for storing the television program table contained in the data group passed through the data identifier, and display control circuit for reading the television program table from the memory and for displaying the television program table on a screen. The text broadcast receiver further includes a remote control selector for selecting at least one television program in the displayed television program table. The selected television program is recorded as a reserved television program for recording.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for a wide band superheterodyne radio receiver for receiving wide band FM, narrow band FM, and AM modulated radio signals between 25 and 550 MHz. The first LO is a phase locked loop controlled VCO, with central processing unit control of the phase locked loop circuitry. The first IF frequency is higher than the highest received frequency and the output frequency of the first LO is higher than the first IF. A second LO and second mixer convert the signal to a second IF lower than the first IF. Separate third and fourth IF band pass filters are provided at the second IF for WFM and for NFM/AM, respectively. The output of the third IF filter (WFM) is converted by a third LO and third mixer to a third IF lower than the second IF. A WFM demodulator is provided at the third IF. The output of the fourth IF filter (NFM/AM) is converted by a fourth LO and fourth mixer to a fourth IF lower than the second IF frequency. A fifth IF band pass filter is provided at the fourth IF.