Abstract: Disclosed is a polypropylene resin composition comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of polypropylene resin and the following components (B) to (D): (B) from 0.001 to 0.1 part by weight of an inorganic neutralizing agent, (C) from 0.01 to 5 parts by weight of an antioxidant, and (D) from 0.01 to 0.5 part by weight of particles of sodium benzoate having an average particle diameter, as measured by a laser method, of from 0.1 to 3.75 ?m wherein particles having particle diameters of not less than 10 ?m account for less than 15% by weight.

Abstract: A soccer game apparatus includes a game processor, and the game processor allows at least a character of a soccer ball to be displayed on a television monitor screen. An signal outputting device is attached to a player's leg, and when the player moves the leg, an acceleration correlation signal correlated with an acceleration as of that time is output from the signal outputting device. Upon receipt of the acceleration correlation signal by an infrared signal, for example, the game processor causes a change to the character of the soccer ball displayed on the screen.

Abstract: Hot water (12) in a bath (11) is pumped up by a suction pump (9) and introduced into a carbon dioxide gas dissolver (7) through solution flow rate adjusting means (14) and then, poured into the bath (11). Carbon dioxide gas supplied from a carbon dioxide gas cylinder (1) is introduced into the carbon dioxide gas dissolver (7) through gas flow rate adjusting means (5). At this time, the quantity of bubbles existing in artificial carbonated spring in a take-out pipe (15) is measured with a measuring device (13), and the solution flow rate adjusting means (14), gas flow rate adjusting means (5) and the like are controlled by means of a control device (16) using a relational expression between a preliminarily set quantity of bubbles and carbon dioxide concentration to obtain a desired concentration of carbon dioxide gas in carbonated spring.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl protecting group, a phosphate group, or —P(R3)R4, wherein R3 and R4 are the same or different and represent a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a cyanoalkoxy group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms or an amino group substituted by an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; A represents an alkylene group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and B represents a purin-9-yl group, a 2-oxo-pyrimidin-1-yl group, a substituted purin-9-yl group or a substituted 2-oxo-pyrimidin-1-yl group having a substituent ? selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group which may be protected, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a mercapto group which may be protected, an alkylthio group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an amino group which may be protected, a mono- or di-alkylamino group which may b

Abstract: Preventives and/or remedies for liver diseases, which comprise monocyte chemoattractant protein-I (MCP-I) function inhibitors as active ingredients, respectively. Administration of the MCP-I function inhibitors brings about effects in preventing and/or remedying liver diseases.

Abstract: A nonlinear fiber having a third-order nonlinear coefficient of at least 30 W?1km?1, and its cladding containing Er or Tm at a portion within 3 ?m from the interface with its core. A wavelength conversion method of making a signal light having a wavelength ?S and an intensity IS and a pump light having a wavelength ?P which is shorter than 2?S and an intensity higher than IS enter a nonlinear fiber 1, and generating a converted light having a wavelength ?C of ?S?P/(2?S??P) and an intensity IC by four wave mixing, wherein Er or Tm is present in the cladding at a portion with a diameter in the nonlinear fiber 1 of at most the mode field diameter, and the converted light is generated by four wave mixing while Er or Tm is excited by an excitation light.

Abstract: A tapping method for performing a tapping process in a punch press includes engaging a front end of a tap provided at a tapping tool attached to a rotating mold indexing device rotatably provided at the punch press with a prepared hole formed in a workpiece. When the front end of the tap is engaged with the prepared hole, a control motor of the rotating mold indexing device is rotated positively to rotate the tap positively. When it is detected that the control motor of the rotating mold indexing device has rotated a determined number of times, positive rotation of the control motor is stopped and the motor is rotated reversely, thereby to detach the tap from the prepared hole of the workpiece.

Abstract: A phase plate and an optical head device are provided, which are capable of suppressing changes of the amount of light incident on a light-receiving unit even if the phase difference caused by transmission through a protective layer of an optical recording medium differs depending on the type of optical recording medium. The phase plate includes a birefringent medium and produces a phase difference in linearly polarized light incident on the phase plate between a polarization component having a polarization direction parallel to the optic axis of the birefringent medium and a polarization component having a polarization direction perpendicular to the optic axis.

Abstract: The present invention provides an antistatic agent composition which attains sufficient antistatic properties and also has antistatic properties having excellent durability against high temperature, high humidity and ultraviolet irradiation. The antistatic agent composition of the present invention comprises a water-soluble resin having a carboxyl group, a crosslinking agent having a functional group capable of reacting with a carboxyl group, and an ammonium salt having a specific chemical structure. One or more crosslinking agents selected from the group consisting of a carbodiimide resin, an epoxy resin, an isocyanate resin and a zirconium salt are preferably used as the crosslinking agent. At least one kind of a water-soluble resin selected from the group consisting of polyacrylic acid and an acrylic acid-methacrylic acid copolymer is preferably used as the water-soluble resin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a salt represented by the formula (I): wherein X represents an n-valent connecting group, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a fluorine atom or a C1-C6 perfluoroalkyl group, n represents 2 or 3, and A+ represents an organic counter ion. The present invention further provides a chemically amplified resist composition comprising the salt represented by the above-mentioned formula (I).

Abstract: In a herbicidal composition containing a sulfonylurea compound of the formula (I): a carboxymethylcellulose salt, a ligninsulfonic acid salt, a surfactant and water, growth of particle of the sulfonylurea compound suspended in the herbicidal composition scarcely occurs after the storage.

Abstract: A mechanical counting device (25) provided within a lock (20), the lock (20) including a latch (26) and a hasp (22), wherein when the latch (26) is engaged with the hasp (22), the lock (20) is locked, and when the hasp (22) is released from the latch (26), the lock (20) is unlocked, the counting device (25) comprising: an actuator (5) to actuate in response to the hasp (22) engaging with the latch (26); and a visual indication (10) to visually indicate whether the lock (20) has been relocked; wherein each actuation of the actuator (5) causes the visual indication (10) to alter and indicate that the lock (20) has been relocked another time.

Abstract: A system, client and method for transmitting preview message in an instant messaging system are disclosed by the present invention.

Abstract: A liquid chromatograph, comprising a first analysis column, which separates a component in a sample guided by a first mobile phase; first detection device for detection of the component; a fractionation flow path, which fractionates and holds in an isolation portion the component detected by the first detection device; a trap flow path, which sends the component held in the isolation portion into a trap column, and causes capture and concentration of the component in the trap column; a second analysis column, which separates the component which has been captured and concentrated in the trap column and is eluted from the trap column by a second mobile phase; and second detection device for detection of the component separated in the second analysis column, wherein the first and second detection devices have a detector selected from a group consisting of a photodiode array detector, an infrared detector, a radioisotope detector, and a fluorescence detector.

Abstract: Provided is a non-contact ID card which is superior in the productivity and the electrical properties, and a method capable of manufacturing such non-contact ID card. The non-contact ID card of the present invention is characterized in that the non-contact ID card comprises an antenna circuit board in which an antenna is formed on a substrate and an interposer board in which an enlarged electrode, which is connected to an electrode of an IC chip, is formed on a substrate on which the IC chip is mounted. The non-contact ID card is formed by laminating both boards in such a manner that the electrode of the antenna and the enlarged electrode are bonded, in which both electrodes are adhesively bonded by an insulating adhesive filled in minute recesses dispersed on bonding faces of the electrode of the antenna and/or the enlarged electrode.

Abstract: The process for producing carbonyl fluoride according to the invention is a process for safely and easily producing high-purity carbonyl fluoride having a low content of carbon tetrafluoride, and comprises feeding carbon monoxide and fluorine to a reactor and allowing carbon monoxide to react with fluorine under the conditions of a reactor internal pressure of less than atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A method of inhibiting scale formation in a subterranean formation comprising: (a) injecting a suspension comprising particles of a controlled release scale inhibitor suspended in an aqueous medium into a formation through an injection well wherein the particles have a mean diameter of less than 10 microns, preferably less than 5 microns, more preferably less than 1 micron; (b) allowing the suspension to percolate through the subterranean formation towards a production well; and (c) controllably releasing the scale inhibitor from the particles in the near well bore region of the production well. Suitably, the particles of the controlled release scale inhibitor comprise an esterifiable scale inhibitor cross-linked with a polyol via ester cross-links.

Abstract: A composition for an optical film comprising a stabilized cyanine dye and a quencher compound, wherein the stabilized cyanine dye comprises a cation and a quencher anion, and the cation is selected from the group consisting of compounds of the following formulae (I) to (III): wherein each of rings A and A? which are independent of each other, is a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring or a pyridine ring, each of R1 and R1? which are independent of each other, is a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a C6-30 aryl group, a C1-8 alkyl group or a C1-8 alkoxy group, each of R2, R3 and R4 which are independent of one another, is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a C6-30 aryl group, a diphenylamino group or a C1-8 alkyl group, each of X and X? which are independent of each other, is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a propan-2,2-diyl group, a butane-2,2-diyl group, a C3-6 cycloalkane-1,1-diyl group, —NH— or —NY1—, each of Y, Y? and Y1 which are independent of one another, is a C1-3

Abstract: A desired temperature distribution is efficiently formed on a glass sheet by a simple structure without lowering heat efficiency within a furnace. A heating furnace conveys a bending mold of a glass sheet and a radiation-heating device is provided in the heating furnace. A first group of a plurality of heating elements are fixed on an inner wall surface of the heating furnace. A second group of a plurality of heating elements are disposed separably from an inner wall surface of the heating furnace.

Abstract: A two-stroke internal combustion engine is provided with a fuel injector. The two-stroke internal combustion engine may have at least one transfer passage, an air channel, and a fuel injector. The transfer passage is between a crankcase and a combustion chamber of the engine. The air channel is in gaseous communication with a top portion of the transfer channel. The fuel injector is in gaseous communication with the air channel and injects fuel into the air channel. The two-stroke engine may be used on hand-held, lawn and garden equipment.