Abstract: A funnel for a cathode ray tube, which includes a neck tube; the neck tube having an end enlarged to provide a flare zone; and the flare zone having an opened end for coupling a stem for supporting stem pins thereto; wherein the flare zone has at least an outer shape constituted by a tapered surface and a substantially straight surface continuous therewith.

Abstract: A method for producing zirconia fused cast refractories, which comprises casting zirconia fused cast refractories containing at least 33 wt % of a ZrO.sub.2 component utilizing a mold, wherein the mold is rotated on a rotation axis, so that at least a portion of a meltage of raw material poured into the mold, is cooled to solidify under a centrifugal force of at least 1.2 G.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film comprising silicon dioxide as the main component, which contains Zr, etc., and a method for forming it by reactive DC sputtering. It makes it possible to form reflection preventive films, alkali barrier films and various multi-layered films such as multi-layered films for anti-iridescent glass, which contain said film comprising silicon dioxide as the main component, by a physical vapor deposition method without breaking a vacuum.

Abstract: A method of driving an image display device including the steps of: dividing row electrodes of an image display device having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes into a plurality of subgroups; selecting summarizingly one of the plurality of subgroups; applying voltages based on signals formed by expanding time-sequentially column vectors of an orthogonal matrix on the row electrodes; performing a gray scale display by a frame rate control (FRC) by using a plurality of frames; performing a space modulation shifting a phase of the FRC with a pixel block comprising a plurality of pixels as a unit; and wherein the phase of the space modulation is set such that a ratio of the columns each applying an equally effective voltage on all of the pixels in the column in each frame in displaying an intermediate gray scale level by all of the pixels belonging to the same subgroup is 40% or more on an average of all of the intermediate gray scale levels and all of the frames.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride resin composition comprising a vinyl chloride polymer and glass fibers coated with a resin obtained by melting a component comprising the following (a) to (c): (a) a polymer miscible with the vinyl chloride polymer, (b) a crystalline polymer immiscible with the vinyl chloride polymer, and (c) a peroxide; a vinyl chloride resin composition comprising a vinyl chloride polymer and glass fibers coated with a copolymer (e) resin having a polymer chain immiscible with the vinyl chloride polymer and a polymer chain miscible with the vinyl chloride polymer; a vinyl chloride resin composition comprising a vinyl chloride polymer, the copolymer (e) and glass fibers coated with a resin miscible with the vinyl chloride polymer.

Abstract: A spray operation method for monolithic refractories, which comprises forcibly sending to an application field by a force feed pump and a force feed piping a self flowable mixed batch prepared by mixing, together with water, a powder composition for monolithic refractories comprising refractory aggregates, a refractory powder and a small amount of a dispersant; injecting into the mixed batch, compressed air and a required amount of a rapid setting agent respectively from a compressed air injection inlet and a rapid setting agent injection inlet provided at a downstream portion or downstream portions of the force feed piping; sending the mixed batch together with the compressed air by a nozzle piping to a spray nozzle attached to the forward end of the nozzle piping; and spraying the mixed batch from the spray nozzle to an application site.

Abstract: Ultraviolet ray absorbing colored glass, which comprises 100 parts by weight of soda lime silicate glass as a base component and coloring components consisting essentially of from 0.12 to 0.7 part by weight of total iron as calculated as Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3, from 0.2 to 2.0 parts by weight of total cerium as calculated as CeO.sub.2, from 1.0 to 2.5 parts by weight of total titanium as calculated as TiO.sub.2, from 0 to 0.01 part by weight of CoO and from 0.0001 to 0.02 part by weight of Se, and which has an ultraviolet ray transmittance of at most 10%, as stipulated in ISO-9050 and as calculated as of a thickness of 5 mm, whereby the dominant wavelength measured by illuminant C is within a range of from 565 to 600 nm.

Abstract: A laminate which comprises a transparent substrate, a first oxide layer comprising ZnO which contains at least one metal, a first metallic layer comprising Pd-containing Ag and a second oxide layer comprising SnO.sub.2 or ZnO which contains at least one metal, wherein said layers are formed on the substrate in this order.

Abstract: A method for producing a hydrofluorocarbon of the formula H.sub.n R.sub.f H wherein n is 0 or 1, and when n is 0, R.sub.f is a C.sub.2-12 linear or branched polyfluoroalkyl group, and when n is 1, R.sub.f is a C.sub.2-12 linear or branched polyfluoroalkylene group, which comprises reacting an iodofluorocarbon of the formula I.sub.n R.sub.f I wherein n and R.sub.f are as defined above, with a reducing agent in a gas phase.

Abstract: A porous ion exchanger which has a porous structure having ion exchange resin particles bound by a binder polymer, and which has a water permeability of at least 30 kg.multidot.cm.sup.-1 .multidot.hr.sup.-1 under a pressure of 0.35 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A plunger supporting mechanism includes a bottom mold into which a gob is loaded; a plunger which is arranged above the bottom mold, and which is lowered to pressure the gob in the bottom mold to press the gob into a glass product, the plunger having an upper portion provided with a flange; a floating unit which supports the flange in a floating manner to support the plunger so as to be movable in a horizontal direction; and a press machine for raising and lowering the plunger through the floating unit; wherein the floating unit is supported so as to be tiltable with respect to the press machine, or the plunger is supported so as to be tiltable with respect to the flange.

Abstract: An alumina sol having an alumina solid content of at least 10 wt % and a viscosity of not higher than 5 Pa.s measured by a Brookfield viscometer and containing a cation other than a hydrogen ion in a total ion equivalent concentration in the range of from 2.0.times.10.sup.-4 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-1 N and a method of preparing the same.

Abstract: A method of forming column signals for driving a liquid crystal display apparatus having a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes wherein a plurality of the row electrodes are selected as a batch; the column electrodes are applied with voltages based on orthogonal transformation signals which are obtained by transforming picture signals corresponding to the positions of the simultaneously selected row electrodes on a panel by an orthogonal function, and the row electrodes are applied with the voltages based on the orthogonal transformation signals; the formation of column signals from the picture signals corresponding to the positions of the simultaneously selected row electrodes on the panel includes a serial-parallel transforming step of transforming inputted picture signals into those having a predetermined bit length, a writing/reading step of reading the picture signals having a predetermined bit length after the picture signals have once been written in a memory; and an operati

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor which includes a polarization electrode and an electrolyte capable of forming an electric double layer on the surface of the polarization electrode, wherein the solvent in the electrolyte is an organic type mixed solvent containing sulfolane or a sulfolane derivative, and a chain carbonic acid ester represented by the general formula R.sup.1 O(CO)OR.sup.2 (wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, are monovalent organic groups).

Abstract: A difluoroprostacyclin of the following formula (V), its lower alkanol ester or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt: ##STR1## wherein A is an ethylene group, a vinylene group or an ethynylene group, R is a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-10 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-10 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-10 alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.3-8 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryloxy group, Q is a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-10 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-10 alkenyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1-10 alkynyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.3-8 cycloalkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group.

Abstract: A water-color ink composition comprising a fusible inorganic component, an aqueous medium and an organic binder soluble and/or dispersible in the aqueous binder.

Abstract: Abrasion resistant glass, which consists essentially of the following components:______________________________________ SiO.sub.2 75.5 to 85.5 (wt %), RO 1 to 8 (wt %), R'.sub.2 O 10 to 23.5 (wt %), RO + R'.sub.2 O 11 to 24.5 (wt %), Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 0 to 5 (wt %), ______________________________________ RO/R'.sub.2 O (weight ratio) at most 0.5,provided that R is at least one member selected from Mg and Ca, and R' is at least one member selected from Li, Na and K, and of which the density measured at room temperature is at most 2.41 g/cc.

Abstract: A process for producing zinc oxide-containing spherical silica, which comprises emulsifying, in an organic solvent containing a surfactant, a dispersion having zinc oxide with a particle size of from 0.005 to 0.5 .mu.m dispersed in an aqueous alkali metal silicate solution in an amount of from 10 to 70 wt % based on the total amount of zinc oxide and SiO.sub.2 in the aqueous alkali metal silicate solution, followed by gelation of the resulting emulsion with carbon dioxide gas.

Abstract: A humidifier for an inhalant gas, which humidifies an inhalant gas having a controlled composition without invasion of bacteria by bringing a stream of the inhalant gas into contact with one side of a water vapor-permeable membrane which is in contact with liquid water on the other side.

Abstract: An adhesive fluorine-containing polymer comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atoms of its main chain and a grafting compound having a linking group capable of grafting to the fluorine-containing polymer and a functional group capable of providing an adhesive property, grafted to the fluorine-containing polymer.