Abstract: A toner comprising separate toner particles each of which comprises a fixable core, the core being provided with a conductive surface layer containing a doped electrically conductive polymer and an intermediate layer, particularly a polymer-containing intermediate layer disposed between the surface layer and the core.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for suppressing growth of an oxide film on a coil which is a spirally wound, rolled strip are disclosed. A rolled strip subjected to rolling by hot rolling equipment is wound spirally by a down-coiler to make a coil. Covers are disposed on the opposite sides of the coil such that heat resistant materials intimately contact the opposite sides of the coil. The covers are fixed by L-bolts and nuts to cover the opposite sides of the coil with the covers. In this state, the coil is naturally cooled for a predetermined time to suppress growth of an oxide film and increase productivity.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method to prevent an ITO from opening. A dummy material layer with tapered edges is formed on a substrate. A first insulating layer is formed on the dummy material layer. Then a metal layer is formed on the first insulating layer, wherein one edge of the metal layer corresponds to any part of one of the tapered edges of the dummy material layer and the other tapered edge is situated away from the metal layer. After a second insulating layer is formed on the metal layer, an ITO layer is formed thereon without opening.

Abstract: A disc cartridge that can provide various driving modes for a disc received within the cartridge and allows a user to select the driving modes efficiently. A disc recording/reproducing method and apparatus employing the disc cartridge is disclosed. In the disc cartridge, a recording prohibition mode, a verification preceding recording mode and a direct recording mode are used. A mode selector can select each mode. The disc cartridge can provide various driving modes at a user's request and permits a user to select the driving modes efficiently by a single selector.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for purifying an aqueous suspension comprising feeding an aqueous suspension containing fine particles comprising an inorganic component from the outer surface of a wavy hollow fiber membrane having an outer diameter of from 0.5 to 3.1 mm to filter, followed by physical wash of the hollow fiber membrane. The purifying method can reduce the damage of the membrane outer surface during the physical wash step, prevent open pores on the surface from covering and achieve stable filtration. The hollow fiber membrane bundle can be produced by having a pulsation flow contacted with the hollow fiber material being extruded from the double spinning nozzle under specific conditions and cooling and solidifying or coagulating it while shaking.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material contains a coupler represented by formula (I) below in at least one layer on a support (in this formula, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which can split off by a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, each of R1 and R2 represents an electron-attracting group having a Hammett's substituent constant p value of 0.20 or more, and the sum of the p values of R1 and R2 is 0.65 or more, and each of G1 and G2 represents a nitrogen atom or a substituent). A pyrrolotriazole compound represented by formula (I) below is also provided.

Abstract: An acrylamide derivative of the following general formula (I) is used to prepare a polymer or copolymer: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a straight-chain or branched alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a C3-6 cycloalkyl group, R2 and R3 each independently represent an alkylene group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms or R2 and R3 may be combined to form a ring, X represents a hydrogen atom, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, a carboxyl group or a —COOR4 group wherein R4 represents a C1-6 straight-chain or branched alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, benzyl or substituted benzyl group, and Y represents an amino group, a halogen atom, a carboxyl group or a —COOR4 group wherein R4 represents a C1-6 straight-chain or branched alkyl, C3-6 cycloalkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl, benzyl or substituted benzyl group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst for hydrogenating a carboxylic acid, comprising an activated carbon having carried thereon an active metal species comprising ruthenium and tin, wherein the activated carbon is produced by subjecting a carbonaceous material to activation treatment using zinc chloride, followed by calcination. Also disclosed is a catalyst for hydrogenating a carboxylic acid, comprising an activated carbon having carried thereon an active metal species comprising ruthenium and tin, wherein the activated carbon, prior to having carried thereon the active metal species, exhibits specific pore characteristics wherein, especially, the pore volume with respect to pores each having a radius of from 10 to 100 Å is from 0.5 to 2.0 cm3/g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel aluminosiloxane compounds which have the characteristics to be prepared from waste silicone compounds and to be advantageously used as siloxylating agent for various organic and inorganic materials, processes for preparation thereof, and uses thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal polyester resin composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a liquid crystal polyester resin, 2 to 50 parts by weight of hollow sphere having an average particle diameter of 5 to 500 &mgr;m and a volume hollowness of 60 to 80%, and 0 to 40 parts by weight of inorganic fiber, wherein said liquid crystal polyester resin composition has the specific range of fracture rate of the hollow sphere. The liquid crystal polyester resing composition gives a molded product having necessary mechanical physical properties, light-weighted and excellently low thermal conductivity, with good reproducibility.

Abstract: There is disclosed a vertical deflection circuit for use in a display device employing a CRT. The vertical deflection circuit has a DSP (digital signal processor) for producing a digital current signal during each main period. This digital current signal shows plural current values which increases in first equal increments from a different value during each main period. The digital current value is converted into an analog current signal by a D/A converter and then averaged by a low-pass filter. A vertical deflection current is produced based on the averaged analog current signal. Because plural different current values are averaged, the average value varies linearly. Accordingly, the vertical deflection current varies linearly with each main period.

Abstract: A CRT display apparatus including a CRT having an electron gun is disclosed. The electron gun includes a cathode, and a G1 electrode, a G2 electrode and a G3 electrode disposed in that order for drawing electrons from the cathode. The electron gun further includes a modulating electrode disposed between the G2 electrode and the G3 electrode. The CRT display apparatus is provided with a controller for controlling a value of a voltage applied to the modulating electrode in order to suppress or interrupt an electron beam flowing from the cathode to a screen of the CRT.

Abstract: A thermal printer has a thermal head including plural heating elements. The heating elements are arranged in an array in a main scan direction, are driven according to image data, for recording an image to thermosensitive recording paper moved in a sub scan direction. The recording paper has a size smaller in the main scan direction than the thermal head. The thermal printer includes two arrays of photo receptor elements for detecting two lateral edges of the recording paper, to determine effective heating elements in contact with the recording paper among the heating elements. A data correcting unit effects a correcting process to part of the image data for heating elements of a first group included in the effective heating elements. The first group contacts each of the two lateral edges and a near portion near to the lateral edge with reference to the main scan direction in the recording paper.

Abstract: A two-piece solid golf ball has good shot feel, excellent flight performance and durability. The JIS-C hardness of core is A, core inward JIS-C hardness at 5 mm inward from the core surface is B, JIS-C surface hardness of the core is C, cover JIS-C hardness is D, distance in mm between center of core and point 5 mm inward from surface of core is K and radius of ball is L, the golf ball satisfies relations: 65≦A≦69, 83≦B≦87, C is lower than B by 1 to 5, and 1.2≦[)D−B)/(L−K)]/[(B−A)/K]≦2.5; and when deformation amount of core at initial load of 10 kgf to final load of 130 kgf is a, and deformation of golf ball when applying initial load of 10 kgf to final load of 130 kgf is b, the deformation difference (a−b) is 0.5 to 0.9.

Abstract: An apparatus for sensing a laundry amount in a washing machine includes: a rectifier; an inverter receiving a DC voltage and converting it to a three-phase AC voltage, a BLDC motor driven by the three-phase AC voltage from the inverter, a rotor position detector detecting the position of a rotor of the BLDC motor; a microcomputer outputting a control signal for controlling a switching operation of the inverter according to the position detect signal of the rotor position detector and a current control signal; a gate driving unit receiving the control signal from the microcomputer and outputting a gate drive signal to the inverter; a torque command generator generating a torque command signal corresponding to a speed set by a user; a torque controller operating the torque command signal from the torque command generator and outputting a q-axis current command signal; a current controller outputting the current control signal according to the q-axis current command signal from the torque controller and a d-axis

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal panel prevents the introduction of static electricity from the exterior of a liquid crystal panel. According to the method, edges of a lower glass substrate on which a liquid crystal material layer and an upper glass substrate are disposed are dipped into an etchant. At this time, the ends of the test electrodes formed on the lower glass substrate are removed. The ends of the test electrodes are removed, and consequently an introduction path of stripe-shaped defect is not generated within the liquid crystal panel. Also, the yield of the liquid crystal panel is greatly improved.

Abstract: This invention relates to a photopolymerizable resin composition containing resin component (A) composed of a resin and/or a resin-forming ingredient and a photopolymerization initiator (B) wherein the component (A) comprises an addition-polymerizable compound (A1) having at least two ethylenically unsaturated groups and the photopolymerization initiator (B) comprises a diaminobenzophenone compound (B1), an N-phenylglycine compound (B2), and at least one kind of compound selected from a group of a 3,3′,4,4′-tetra(alkylperoxycarbonyl)benzophenone (B3), 2-methyl-1-[4-(thiomethyl)phenyl]- 2-morpholinopropan-1-one (B4), and a 1,3,5-triazine derivative (B5) containing at least one trihalomethyl group as substituent.

Abstract: Wiring for a semiconductor device which is suitable for high density device packing, and a method for forming the same, are disclosed. The wiring includes: impurity regions formed in a substrate on both sides of an insulated gate electrode; a first conduction layer formed on the impurity regions; and a second conduction layer formed in contact with the first conduction layer on one side of the gate electrode. The method includes the steps of: forming impurity regions in a substrate on both sides of an insulated gate electrode; forming a first conduction layer on the impurity regions; and forming a second conduction layer in contact on one side of the gate electrode with the first conduction layer.

Abstract: An improved sliding member is provided that has a sliding surface and a deposition layer formed on the sliding surface utilizing an ion-plating method, wherein the deposition layer is composed mainly of chrome nitride, including CrN. The CrN of the chrome nitride has a preferred orientation of plane {111} and contains boron in an amount of not less than 0.05 and not more than 20 weight percent. The deposition layer further contains oxygen and/or carbon in an amount of not more than 15 weight percent. The improved sliding member exhibits excellent abrasion and scuff resistance and enhanced peeling resistance.