Abstract: A prepreg having high processability and laminating performance and a method to produce such a prepreg is described, the prepreg comprising at least the components [A] to [E] shown below, and having a structure incorporating a first layer composed mainly of the component [A] and a first epoxy resin composition that contains the components [B] to [D] but which is substantially free of the component [E], and a second layer composed mainly of a second epoxy resin composition that contains the components [B] to [E], [A] carbon fiber, [B] epoxy resin, [C] curing agent, [D] thermoplastic resin, and [E] particles containing a thermoplastic resin as primary component and having a volume-average particle diameter of 5 to 50 ?m.

Abstract: A dust collecting apparatus and method for dedusting a Ca-containing gas using a ceramics filter is provided, in which a filter differential pressure elevation rate is suppressed. A desulferizing agent 103 and a mineral 106 containing MgO are supplied via a hopper 13, 15 a valve 14 and a feeder 16 into a pressurized fluidized-bed combustion furnace 1 together with coal 101 and air 102. A combustion gas 201 is dedusted by a cyclone 2 to become a combustion gas 301, the combustion gas 301 enters a filter container 3a, 3b having a ceramics filter 31a, 31b and is further dedusted. A combustion gas 401 which is dedusted is supplied into a gas turbine 4 to generate power, and combustion gas 501 heats a waste heat recovery boiler 5 which in turn drives a steam turbine 7. The mineral 106 containing MgO is added in the combustion gas 301 which flows in the ceramics filter 31a, 31b. Thereby MgO is added to the combustion gas so that the filter differential pressure elevation rate can be suppressed.

Abstract: A titanium target for sputtering high in film making efficiency in a contact hole. The crystallization on the target face is caused to be orientated so that the X-ray diffraction strength of the (10 -10) and/or (11 -20) vertical to the close-packed filling face may become 1.1 times or more in a case of the random orientation, and the X-ray diffraction strength of the (0002) parallel to the close-packed filling face may become 1 time or lower in a case of the random orientation. A direction of the sputter grains jumping out of the target face is controlled in a direction vertical to the target face.

Abstract: A drive circuit for a display apparatus having a display section including a pixel, a switching element connected to the pixel and a scanning electrode connected to the switching element, and a pixel electrode and a counter electrode being provided on opposite sides of the pixel, includes a circuit for applying a first oscillating voltage to the counter electrode, and for applying a second oscillating voltage having the same phase and the same amplitude as the first oscillating voltage to the scanning electrode during a period when the switching element is to be in off-state.

Abstract: Novel trimethylcyclohexenyl compounds of the 1,3,3-trimethyl-1-cyclohexene type having a 3-hydroxy-3-lower alkylpropionyl group at the 6-position of the cyclohexene are provided. These trimethylcyclohexenyl compounds have a floral note reminiscent of a variety of odors. There are also provided aroma compositions containing these compounds.

Abstract: The novel hydroquinone derivatives of the formula (I) are useful intermediates for the preparation of coenzyme Q, vitamin K and the polyprenyltrimethylquinones: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is lower alkyl, lower alkoxy lower alkyl or methoxyethoxymethyl, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are each methyl or methoxy, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, taken together with the carbon atoms from which they depend, define a benzene ring, and R.sup.4 is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon. The compounds (I) are readily prepared either by reacting a Grignard reagent of the formula (II) with a halosulfone (III) in the presence of a copper compound, or by reacting a copper derivative (II') of the Grignard reagent (II) with a halo-sulfone (III), as follows: ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are defined as above, and X is a halogen atom or a tosyl group.

Abstract: Novel substituted propargyl alcohols of the formula: ##STR1## novel allylic alcohols of the formula: ##STR2## and; .delta.,.epsilon.-unsaturated ketones of the formula: ##STR3## are provided. In the above formulas, R represents a group of the formula: ##STR4## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 are both hydrogen atoms or wherein one of X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, the other jointly with Z represents a bond; Z jointly with X.sub.1 or X.sub.2 represents a bond or separately represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a lower alkoxy group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and represents hydrogen atoms or lower alkyl groups; n is 1 or 2; and when n is 2, X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different. These novel compounds are easily produced and are useful as perfumes and as interrelated intermediates for the production of terpenoid compounds.

Abstract: Ionones and irones are produced by thermal rearrangement of novel propargylic alcohols, as follows: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a lower alkyl group, R.sup.2 is hydrogen or methyl and the dotted lines in the product formula reflect the existence of a double bond at either one or the other of the positions indicated.

Abstract: Novel substituted propargyl alcohols of the formula: ##STR1## novel allylic alcohols of the formula: ##STR2## .delta.,.epsilon.-unsaturated ketones of the formula: ##STR3## are provided. In the above formulas, R represents a group of the formula: ##STR4## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 are both hydrogen atoms or wherein one of X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom, the other jointly with Z represents a bond; Z jointly with X.sub.1 or X.sub.2 represents a bond or separately represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group or a lower alkoxy group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different and represents hydrogen atoms or lower alkyl groups; n is 1 or 2; and when n is 2, X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different. These novel compounds are easily produced and are useful as perfumes and as interrelated intermediates for the production of terpenoid compounds.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for preparing unsaturated ketones especially terpenoid ketones, by subjecting a substituted propargyl alcohol of formula (II) ##STR1## wherein R is a group containing 1 or 2 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl- or alkylene units containing 4 carbon atoms each to a thermal treatment sufficient to rearrange its structure in order to obtain structurally isomeric unsaturated ketones of formula I ##STR2## wherein one of the substituents X.sub.3 and X.sub.4 is hydrogen and the other and Z.sub.2 together form a bond. The process can be effected in the presence of an isomerization catalyst, which leads to high percentage of .alpha...beta.,.gamma...delta.-unsaturated ketones. The ketones of formula I are useful as perfumes and as intermediates for the production of terpenoid compounds.