Abstract: A cosmetic composition contains: a carotenoid (A), a collagen (B) having an average molecular weight of 40,000 or more, and a collagen peptide (C) having a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 5,000.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a dispersion composition including a carotenoid-containing oily component, the dispersion composition being obtained by mixing an aqueous dispersion containing emulsion particles containing the carotenoid-containing oily component and a phospholipid or a derivative thereof with an aqueous composition containing ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof and an oily component that is 20% by mass or less relative to the mass of the whole dispersion composition, and the dispersion composition having emulsion particles having an average particle diameter of 200 nm or less; a dispersion composition including a carotenoid-containing oily component, the dispersion composition being obtained by mixing an aqueous dispersion containing emulsion particles containing a carotenoid-containing oily component and a phospholipid or a derivative thereof with an aqueous composition containing ascorbic acid or a derivative thereof and a pH adjusting agent, and the dispersion composition having a pH val

Abstract: A diazonium salt represented by the following general formula (1) and a thermal recording material using the diazonium salt: General Formula (1) wherein R1 and R2 each independently represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a carbamoyl group, and R1 and R2 may be linked each other to form a ring; and R3 to R6 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group or a diazonio group, and at least one of R3, R4, R5 and R6 represents the diazonio group.

Abstract: A diazonium salt represented by the following general formula (1) and a thermal recording material using the diazonium salt: 1

Abstract: The present invention provides a diazonium salt represented by the following general formula (1) wherein R1 represents a branched alkyl group; R2 and R3 separately represent an alkyl group and may bond to each other to form a ring; R4, R5, and R6 separately represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group and R4 and R5 may bond to each other to form a ring; and X− represents an anion and a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a heat-sensitive recording layer including the diazonium salt and a coupler.

Abstract: The present invention provides a diazonium salt represented by the following general formula (1) wherein R1 represents a branched alkyl group; R2 and R3separately represent an alkyl group and may bond to each other to form a ring; R4, R5, and R6 separately represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group and R4 and R5 may bond to each other to form a ring; and X— represents an anion and a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a heat-sensitive recording layer including the diazonium salt and a coupler.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrimidine compound that is useful as a coupler providing excellent hue of a cyan system and sufficient density of formed color. The pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrimidine compound of the present invention for achieving the object is represented by one of following general formulae (1), (2) and (3).

Abstract: A hydrazone dye is provided which forms cyan color having an excellent hue. The hydrazone dye is expressed by the following general formula (I): wherein Ar represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R1 through R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen, —CN, —NH2, —NO2, —OH, —CO2H, —SO3H, a quaternary ammonium group, —CO2M1/n, —SO3M1/n, an alkyl group, alkenyl group, alkynyl group, aryl group, acyl group, carbamoyl group, sulfamoyl group, alkoxycarbonyl group, aryloxycarbonyl group, acyloxy group, alkoxy group, aryloxy group, alkylthio group, arylthio group, alkylsulfonyl group, arylsulfonyl group, alkylphosphoryl group, arylphosphoryl group, or a substituted amino group; M represents a metal atom; and n represents an integer from 1 to 4.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a substrate having thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a diazonium salt compound and a coupler, pyrrolo?1,2-a! pyrimidine compound, as the coupler, being represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an aryl group, an alkyl group, a cyano group, an acyl group, a substituted carbamoyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an alkylthio group, or an arylthio group.The diazo-type heat-sensitive recording material, which develops a violet to cyan color, has excellent image stability and image fixing characteristics.

Abstract: A ball game apparatus has a plurality of balls, a spiral rail for automatically delivering the balls, a field portion on which the balls delivered by the spiral rail can roll with a given degree of freedom, winning pocket portions and invalid pockets formed over the field portion for receiving a plurality of the balls in each of them, a CCD camera for counting the number of balls received in the winning pocket portions and a calculator for calculating a score from the number of balls counted by the CCD camera.