Abstract: The present invention pertains to a filing element such as a suspended file or file folder for the introduction of documents and an identification strip, characterized in that the identification strip exhibits at least one series of sites, each of which is identified by an alphanumeric labeling that is permanent and invariable for the totality of the elements of a filing system, with one of the sites of the series also having at least one colored identification labeling, with the choice of the labeling colors and the labeling site being specific to the given filing element.

Abstract: Producing a ferritic Cr-containing steel sheet having excellent ductility, formability, and anti-ridging properties, and exhibiting excellent surface quality after forming, wherein a ferritic Cr-containing steel sheet contains, by mass %, about 0.001 to 0.12% of C, about 0.001 to 0.12% of N, and about 9 to 32% of Cr, and has a crystal grain structure in which in a section of a hot-rolled annealed steel sheet in the thickness direction parallel to the rolling direction, an elongation index of crystal grains is 5 or less at any position, and in a section of a cold-rolled annealed steel sheet in the thickness direction parallel to the rolling direction, any colony of coarse grains oriented in the rolling direction has an aspect ratio of 5 or less. The production method includes hot rolling, pre-rolling by cold or warm rolling with a rolling reduction of about 2 to 15%, hot-rolled sheet annealing, cold rolling, and finish annealing; preferably the FDT of hot rolling is 850° C., and 0.0002 to 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides an efficient dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) production process improved in the conversion from dimethyl sulfide (DMS) to DMSO by recycling the NOx used as a catalyst in the continuous oxidation reaction of DMS for producing DMSO, specifically providing a DMSO production process improved in the recovery rate and/or absorption rate of NOx by recovering NOx from the reaction off gas and/or the gas removed from the reaction product solution for re-utilization.

Abstract: Benzene fused derivatives represented by the following formula: having strong TXA2 receptor antagonistic action and PGI2 receptor agonistic action, and effective for treating or preventing diseases concerning TXA2.

Abstract: An apparatus for heating and extruding a polymeric sheet having a predetermined thickness and introducing it into and through a gap between cooling rolls, measuring directly by laser beam and without reflection the gap between the cooling rolls, and controlling the gap to control minimal pressure on the softened and heat-plastified sheet.

Abstract: Manufacturing semiprocessed non-oriented magnetic steel sheets, which has superior workability in steps of assembling cores for motors or the like, in which improvement in productivity and higher accuracy of the products can be realized, by hot rolling a steel slab containing about 0.001 to 0.03 wt % C, about 0.1 to 1.0 wt % Si, about 0.01 to 1.0 wt % Al, about 0.05 to 1.0 wt % Mn, and about 0.001 to 0.15 wt % P, cold rolling the hot rolled sheet, continuous annealing the cold rolled sheet, and skin pass rolling the annealed sheet, wherein the average cooling rate in the continuous annealing process is about 10° C./second or more and skin pass rolling is performed at a reduction rate of about 0.5 to 5% within about 20 hours after continuous annealing.

Abstract: A method and lifting transfer apparatus for dismantling an existing blast furnace body by dividing it into a plurality of furnace-body ring blocks, and efficiently transporting each of the ring blocks to and from a furnace-body disassembly site and back to the hearth for assembly of a repaired or rebuilt furnace body.

Abstract: A water heater including a water container; a combustion chamber located adjacent the container, the combustion chamber having a floor portion with an opening; a conduit extending upwardly from and being substantially sealed to the opening; a burner located inside the combustion chamber; and a flame trap positioned across the conduit, the flame trap permitting ingress of air and/or extraneous gases into the combustion chamber and prevent egress of flames from the structure.

Abstract: The present invention offers polypropylene terephthalate textured yarn which has little dyeing unevenness or fibrillation, and is outstanding in its product quality, by carrying out texturing at the same time as drawing under specified conditions using polypropylene undrawn yarn; together with a method for the production thereof.

Abstract: A film production process having a film tentering step and a recovering step, characterized by detecting the side edge positions of the film running toward the recovering step, transferring the film running direction based on the detected information, and controlling the clamp start position of the film arriving at a tenter in the tentering step by clamp means, in the transverse direction of the film. A film production process having a film tentering step, characterized by controlling the clamp start position of a film arriving at a tenter by clamp means, in the range from 5 mm to 1,000 mm from the tip of the film in the longitudinal direction of the film.

Abstract: A method of stabilizing a useful protein by mixing a useful protein and an aqueous solution of a compound having the basic structure of arabic acid, and a stabilizied useful protein compositon containing a useful protein and a compound having the basic structure of arabic acid; gum arabic is preferred as a compound having the basic structure of arabic acid, and examples of a useful protein include cytokine and interferon; and a production method for canine interferon-&ggr; and stabilization thereof.

Abstract: The phenolic resin composition for fiber-reinforced composite materials of the invention comprises at least the following constituent elements A and B of a thermoplastic resin: A: phenolic resin, B: at least one thermoplastic resin selected from polyvinyl formals, polyvinyl acetals, polyvinyl butyrals, polyvinyl pyrrolidones, polyvinyl acetates, polyvinyl alcohols, polyethylene glycols, copolymerized nylons and dimer acid polyamides. The resin composition is filmwise applied to reinforcing fibers, and the resulting film is heated under pressure whereby it is impregnated into the reinforcing fibers to give a prepreg for fiber-reinforced composite materials.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stainless steel being excellent in workability, corrosion resistance and antibacterial property. To be more specific, a stainless steel containing 10 wt % or more of Cr is rendered to contain 0.0001-1 wt % of Ag, or further one or more members selected from Sn: 0.0002-0.02 wt %, Zn: 0.0002-0.02 wt %, Pt: 0.0002-0.01 wt %, and, in addition, is rendered to dispersedly contain a total of 0.001 % or more in an area percentage of one or more members of a silver particle, a silver oxide and a silver sulphide each having a mean grain diameter of 500 &mgr;m or less. To disperse the silver particle, silver oxide and silver sulphide uniformly, the casting rate of continuous casting is preferably controlled to range from 0.8 to 1.6 m/min.

Abstract: A method for determining the state of charge of lead-acid rechargeable batteries comprising a) substantially simultaneously measuring measured-value pairs (Ui, Ii) of the rechargeable battery voltage and current flowing at time ti over time interval dt, b) selecting a group of said measured-value pairs (Ui, Ii) for which only a discharge current flowed in the last time interval dt, c) varying parameters Uo, R and C such that a residual sum of squares between values Ui given by formula (1) Ui=Uo−R*Ii+1/C∫Idt  (1) and measured values U(ti) is minimized, wherein Uo represents no-load voltage, R represents resistance and C represents capacitance, and d) calculating the state of charge of the rechargeable battery from the no load voltage obtained from formula (1).

Abstract: In a method for monitoring the charging of gastight alkaline rechargeable batteries, the characteristics of the critical charging voltage (Ucrit) on a rechargeable battery are determined as a function of the charging current (I) for various temperatures (T) and are linearized by means of a function in the form A(I)×T+B(I). The value pairs A and B are stored as parameter arrays in a battery management system, and during operation of a physically identical rechargeable battery which is to be monitored, the associated critical charging voltage is calculated by measuring the temperature and charging current and is used to control the charging of the rechargeable battery. On reaching the critical charging voltage (Ucrit) which corresponds to the critical state of charge (LZcrit), the value of the critical state of charge can be calculated by measuring the current (I) and temperature (T).

Abstract: A method for determining the state of charge of a storage battery, wherein at least two methods of different approach for determining state of charge are simultaneously applied. The individually obtained results of the different methods are weighted in accordance with their respective reliability in the respective current or former operating situation of the storage battery, and the weighted mean value of the individual methods thus obtained is used as final output variable of the method and displayed. The voltage of the storage battery, the current flowing through it and its temperatures are measured, and the different methods use these input variables and variables derived from these input variables as final input variables. At least one of the different methods uses the integration of the current flowing through the storage battery to determine the changes in the charge content of the storage battery.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating wastewater including a physical-chemical reactor; a chemical supply operably connected to the physical-chemical reactor; a clarifier operably connected to and located downstream of the physical-chemical reactor; a ballast recirculation line operably connected between the clarifier and the high rate physical-chemical reactor; and a control system that directs a) influent into 1) the clarifier but not the physical-chemical reactor when flow or pollutants of the influent is within a selected low range and 2) the physical-chemical reactor and then into the clarifier when the flow/pollutants of influent is within a selected higher range and b) internally generated ballast into the physical-chemical reactor through the ballast recirculation line when the pollutants and/or flow is within the selected higher range.

Abstract: A pressure gauge device that is operated as a thermal conduction manometer contains a measuring resistor (131) that is arranged in layer form on a self-supporting carrier foil and is in defined thermal contact with a gas whose pressure is to be measured. The thermal contact with the gas is through the carrier foil (11), a thermal conducting layer (123) and optionally through an extra absorber layer (124). The resistance, dependent on gas pressure, of the measuring resistor (131) is detected by a bridge circuit in which each measuring resistor (131) is assigned a reference resistor (136) whose resistance itself is dependent on or independent of pressure.

Abstract: A ferritic stainless steel plate of excellent ridging resistance and formability, as well as a manufacturing method thereof are proposed. Specifically, the rolling is conducted at a rolling reduction of 30% or more in at least 1 pass and at a temperature difference between the center of the plate thickness and the surface of 200° C. or lower in a pass for the maximum rolling reduction to cause the area ratio of a {111} orientation colony to be present by 30% or more in the regions of ⅛ to ⅜ and ⅝ to ⅞ of the plate thickness. The {111} orientation colony is an assembly of adjacent crystals in which the angle of <111> orientation vector for each of the crystals relative to the direction vector vertical to the rolling surface is within 15°.