Abstract: A substrate coated with a film of liquid crystal material having a uniform thickness is produced efficiently by applying the liquid crystal material to the electrode side of a substrate using an impregnating matter impregnated with the liquid crystal material, and such a method ensures uniform thickness even for a film of liquid crystal material having a large area. A liquid crystal optical device having a uniform optical quality and a large area is produced efficiently by coating a flexible substrate with a film of liquid crystal material using the method described above, laminating the coated flexible substrate with another flexible substrate, with the film of the liquid crystal material disposed between the electrode sides of the flexible substrates, and orienting the liquid crystal material in thus obtained laminate by subjecting the laminate to bending treatment.

Abstract: A substrate coated with a film of liquid crystal material having a uniform thickness is produced efficiently by applying the liquid crystal material to the electrode side of a substrate using an impregnating matter impregnated with the liquid crystal material, and such a method ensures uniform thickness even for a film of liquid crystal material having a large area. A liquid crystal optical device having a uniform optical quality and a large area is produced efficiently by coating a flexible substrate with a film of liquid crystal material using the method described above, laminating the coated flexible substrate with another flexible substrate, with the film of the liquid crystal material disposed between the electrode sides of the flexible substrates, and orienting the liquid crystal material in thus obtained laminate by subjecting the laminate to bending treatment.

Abstract: A room temperature-curable silicone rubber composition comprising a polydiorganosiloxane having a silanol group at the both ends thereof, an organosilane or a partially hydrolyzed condensate thereof, an epoxyalkylalkoxysilane, and an organosilicon group-containing isocyanurate. The composition shows improved adhesive property to various materials and having excellent moisture resistance and hot water-resistant adhesive property, and is useful as a sealing material for various apparatuses and structures which are used in hot water or moist heat atmosphere.

Abstract: A method of orienting a liquid crystal optical device includinga smectic liquid crystal andtwo flexible substrates whichsupport the smectic liquid crystal layer between them andcarry on their surfaces facing each other their respective electrode layers,which method comprises orienting the smectic liquid crystal by subjecting the liquid crystal optical device to a bending treatment.

Abstract: Polyorganosiloxane compositions comprising:(A) a polyorganosiloxane having two or more of the following unit, in the molecule, represented by the formula: ##EQU1## wherein, R.sup.1 represents an alkenyl radical; R.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon radical having no unsaturated aliphatic bond; a is an integer of 1 of 2; b is an integer of 0 to 2; and a+b is an integer of 1 to 3;(B) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane, having units represented by the formula: ##EQU2## wherein, R.sup.3 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon radical; c is an integer of 0 to 2; d is an integer of 1 or 2; and c+d is an integer of 1 to 3,and having at least three hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms in a molecule, in an amount such that the number of the hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms may be 0.5 to 4.0 per R.sup.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyorganosiloxane composition and, more particularly, to a polyorganosiloxane composition having good curing properties at room temperature and producing cured materials having good water absorption properties. The polyorganosiloxane composition comprises:(A) a curable silicone rubber composition containing polysiloxane which is liquid at room temperature as a base polymer; and(B) a polymer containing acrylic acid or an alkali metal salt of acrylic acid as a monomer unit.

Abstract: Polyorganosiloxane compositions comprising:(A) a linear and/or branched polyorganosiloxane, with a viscosity of 50 to 100,000 cP at 25.degree. C., wherein 0.7 to 1.8 vinyl radicals bonded to silicon atoms, on average, are present in each molecule, and the remaining organic radicals bonded to silicon atoms are substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon radicals which does not include unsaturated aliphatic radicals, and 30% or more portion of the molecules has only one silicon-bonded vinyl radical in the molecule;(B) a polyorganohydrogensiloxane, wherein more than two hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms, on average, are present in each molecule, in an amount such that the number of silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms may be 0.5 to 5 per vinyl radical in the molecule (A);(C) a catalytic amount of platinum compounds; and(D) anthraquinone dyes and/or azo dyes, in an amount from 1 to 2,000 ppm to (A).

Abstract: A curing agent composition for silicone elastomers, comprising an organic tin compound which is solubilized in water with the use of a nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene sorbitol fatty acid esters and polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid esters and a polyvalent alcohol.