Abstract: An amorphous alloy having a boron content of about 6 to 10 at %, cast into a plate, wherein the plate thickness is about 15 to 25 &mgr;m, and the surface roughness Ra0.8 of the plate is about 0.8 &mgr;m or less.

Abstract: Water-cooling slabs by dipping to yield steel sheets with a minimum of scabs and uneven gloss, with their larger faces upside and underside, by water injection at a flow rate of 10-150 L/m2·min perpendicular or oblique to the underside of the slabs, with the position of water injection 30-500 mm away from the underside of the slabs.

Abstract: With a solid fine reducing material containing hydrogen placed as a lower layer on a movable hearth, a powdered mixture of an oxide powder dominantly of a fine iron ore and a solid fine reducing material is stacked in layered arrangement, and subsequent reduction operation is performed.

Abstract: Electromagnetic steel sheet having excellent magnetic properties and a texture gratly integrated in the {100}<001> orientation, and an uncomplicated and low cost production method; with about a 15 &mgr;&OHgr;·cm or more specific resistivity, about a 2.0 or more {100}<001> integration degree /{111}<uvw> integration degree and about a 10 &mgr;m to 500 &mgr;m grain diameter; when about 0.1 to 3.5% by weight of Si is present, the {100}<001> integration degree is about 10 or more; when about 0.2 to 1.2% by weight of P is present, the {100}<001> integration degree is about 3 or more; by applying a large reduction ratio to a steel slab in the vicinity of the final stage of hot rolling, with the hot rolling finishing temperature controlled at about 750 to 1150° C., hot rolled steel having a texture highly integrated in the {100}<001> orientation is economically produced.

Abstract: A panel for a truck having an FRP plate including a woven fabric of reinforcing fiber as a main rigid member, a cargo compartment for a truck using the panel and a truck equipped with the cargo compartment for a truck. The panel and the cargo compartment are light, have sufficient rigidity and strength and excellent in processing and fabricating properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyester product excellent in resilient elasticity, shape retainability and shape stability, and a process for producing the same. The invention provides a polyester product with high resilient elasticity, shape retainability, and shape stability, which is produced by heat-treating a product comprising polyester fibers or a film prepared by taking up a molten polyester at a take-up speed of 2000 m/min to 4000 m/min, in wet heat and/or dry heat at not lower than 120° C. with the product maintained in a loose or constrained condition without being drawn. The product is very suitable, for example, as a collar interlining cloth of a shirt, a base fabric of a shirt, or a fabric of a lady's dress, etc.

Abstract: A composite textured yarn contains a component yarn A and a component yarn B each false twisted and crimped. The component yarn B is shorter in yarn length or larger in shrinkage at least after heat treatment. Single fibers of component B have thick portions and thin portions successively alternating in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A filter cloth comprising at least a base layer and a filtering layer, characterized in that the ratio T/L of the thickness (T) of the filtering layer to the length (L) of fibers of fiber bundles constituting the filtering layer is 0.02 to 0.7 and the sum of a projected area of the fibers onto the base layer surface is 8 to 350 times the area of the base layer surface and, a filter cloth characterized in being constituted with at least a base layer and a filtering layer mainly composed of fiber bundles of crimped fiber ratio over 5%.

Abstract: A sheet bar having a thickness of 20 to 50 mm, as continuously cast by a sheet bar caster, is passed as it is through a first sheet bar twister and is then wound in an up-end state into an up-end sheet bar coil. Then, this up-end sheet bar coil is rewound, passed through a second sheet bar twister, finish-rolled and wound into a hot coil. As compared with the slabbing—high draft rolling process of the prior art, the invention is advantageous in that it can improve the quality, production yield and production efficiency and can reduce the cost for an apparatus such as the cost for its construction and maintenance.

Abstract: An aromatic carboxylic acid, aromatic aldehyde, and aromatic alcohol are simultaneously and efficiently prepared by liquid phase oxidizing an aromatic compound represented by formula (I) with a gas containing molecular oxygen, in a presence of a catalyst comprising transition metal compound, tertiary amine and bromide compound:

Abstract: A valved device is provided for controlling flow into or out from a surgical patient. It includes a body defining a flow passageway and a valve connected to the body in flow communication with the body's passageway. The valve includes a barrel and a piston extending into the barrel. Means is provided for displacing the piston within the barrel along the barrel's axis to open a flow path that is preferably adapted for liquid suction. Means is also provided for rotating the piston within the barrel around the barrel's axis to open a flow path that is preferably adapted for smoke or gas evacuation.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide an iron-based powder composition for powder metallurgy having excellent flowability at room temperature and a warm compaction temperature, having improved compactibility enabling lowering ejection force in compaction, to provide a process for producing the iron-based powder composition, and to provide a process for producing a compact of a high density from the iron-based powder composition. The iron-based powder composition comprises an iron-based powder, a lubricant, and an alloying powder, and at least one of the iron-based powder, the lubricant, and the alloying powder is coated with at least one surface treatment agent selected from the group of surface treatment agents of organoalkoxysilanes, organosilazanes, titanate coupling agents, fluorine-containing silicon silane coupling agents.

Abstract: A method for isomerizing a halogenated ethylbenzene characterized by bringing the same into contact with an acidic zeolite containing at least one metal selected among metals of Groups 7 to 11; and a method of efficiently isolating a m-halogenated ethylbenzene from a mixture of halogenated ethylbenzene isomers by adsorption using a specific zeolite X or Y as the adsorbent. The isomerization method enables a halogenated ethylbenzene to be efficiently isomerized with the zeolite catalyst. The separation method enables m-chloroethylbenzene to be efficiently separated from a mixture of chloroethylbenzene isomers by using a specific zeolite as the adsorbent.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for refining silicon by treatment in a graphite vessel with irradiation with an electron beam while removing impurity elements by evaporation. A single graphite vessel is used, or plural graphite vessels are arranged in sequence. During treatment in successive graphite vessels, molten silicon is poured in succession from one vessel to another. Use of graphite vessels improves heat efficiency, prevents contamination and produces refined silicon containing very low contents of impurities.

Abstract: Canine interleukin 12 and a method for producing it by genetic engineering are disclosed. The canine interleukin 12 includes a protein having an amino acid sequence substantially the same as SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO:11 or corresponds to part of either of SEQ ID NOS:1 and 11, and a protein having an amino acid sequence substantially the same as SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:12 or corresponds to part of either of SEQ ID NOS:2 and 12, and relates to a production method thereof. There is also an immune disease remedy and preventive agent for dogs and cats containing canine interleukin 12, and a method of treating immune disease and a preventive method for dogs and cats using the immune disease remedy or preventive agent.

Abstract: A box annealing furnace for annealing a metal sheet includes an oxygen removal unit for removing oxygen from the atmosphere in a box annealing furnace, with a gas circulation system for withdrawing atmosphere from the box annealing furnace during annealing, treating the gas, and for refeeding the deoxidized gas to the box annealing furnace. The box annealing furnace may also include a moisture removal unit for removing moisture from the gas. The oxygen removal unit and the moisture removal unit can reliably remove oxygen and moisture from the gas and suppress the formation, during annealing, of oxide film on a ferrous metal sheet.

Abstract: A method and a low iron loss grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: hot-rolling a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet; cold-rolling the hot-rolled steel sheet once or twice intervened by intermediate annealing, so as to achieve the sheet thickness of a final product; annealing the cold-rolled steel sheet for decarburization; finish-annealing the decarburized steel sheet; forming linear grooves on the steel sheet substantially perpendicularly to the rolling direction, after the final cold-rolling step and before the finish-annealing step, by, for example, electrolytic etching or acid dipping; and filling the linear grooves with an element selected from the group consisting of Sn, B and Sb, or an oxide or a sulfate of an element selected therefrom.

Abstract: A traveling hearth for producing reduced metal by charging and stacking a raw material containing a metal-containing material and a solid-reducing material on a horizontally moving hearth, arranged for disposing a solid-reducing material layer on the hearth, forming concave portions at the solid-reducing material surface, stacking the raw material on the surface of the solid-reducing material layer, reducing the raw material by at least once heating and melting the material on the hearth to separate metal and gangue and ash ingredients, and discharging metal from the hearth.

Abstract: A fluid separation element assembly comprises a fluid separation element having a membrane unit and a wrapping material formed around the membrane unit, an anti-telescoping plate attached to at least one end of the fluid separation element at a condition free to be detached, and a feed water seal member for preventing feed water from leaking through a gap between the fluid separation element and the anti-telescoping plate. The membrane unit is formed by a separation membrane, a permeate carrier material and a feed carrier material which are spirally wound around a permeate collection tube. By providing the anti-telescoping plate detachably, when the separation membrane has reached its life, it is possible to reuse other members.

Abstract: 2-(&ohgr;-alkoxycarbonyl alkanoyl)-4-butanolide is produced with a high selectivity and yield through condensation reaction of Y-butyrolactone with a readily available, low-price dicarboxylate as represented by the following general formula: ROOC(CH2)nCOOR wherein n denotes an integer of 8-13, and R denotes an alkyl group or an alkenyl group.