Abstract: A vehicle impact attenuator that can be installed at low cost in a narrow installation space, immediately stop a colliding vehicle, and effectively mitigate the impact on the vehicle. The vehicle impact attenuator includes a shock absorber that deforms upon a collision by a vehicle to reduce the impact on the vehicle. A support is provided for the shock absorber and a holding portion holds the support (20A) in a vertical position in an installation area. The support has cuts made in it that upon application of a load equal to or exceeding a set value, fracture and function as a release mechanism to thereby release the support from being held in a vertical position in the installation area. The support is deformable by a load less than the set value.

Abstract: A sheet material for advertisement having high water resistance and durability for practice and optionally high flameproof property and mildewproof property and capable of recording thereon ink images having a high clarity under transmitted light by ink jet printing, has an ink receiving layer which is formed on a sheet substrate comprising a base fiber fabric and a synthetic resin-containing coating layer, which optionally has a flameproof and/or mildewproof property, and which comprises hydrated silica particles (having an average primary particle size of 20 to 35 nm an average secondary particle size of 2 to 7 &mgr;m and a BET specific surface area of 50 to 170 m2/g, a water-holding material, for example, three dimensionally cross-linked isocyanate-polyalkyleneoxide and isocyanate-N-vinyl acetamide copolymers and/or copolymers or reaction products of ethyleneoxide (65% by weight or more) with a modifying organic compound, an acrylic resin binder, and optionally a phosphate ester compound flame retarder and

Abstract: An amorphous metal laminate sheet having an excellent electromagnetic wave-shielding effect including a core layer containing at least one amorphous metal sheet layer which may be plated with an electroconductive metal, at least one flexible polymeric coating layer laminated on at least one surface of the amorphous metal-coating core layer, and optionally, at least one reinforcing fibrous fabric layer.

Abstract: A stainproof, flame-resistant composite sheet material including at least one silicone polymer layer containing a silicon resin or rubber and optionally a flame-resistant inorganic filler and at least one stainproof surface layer containing at least one synthetic thermoplastic stain-resistant, weathering-resistant polymeric material, the silicone polymer layer and the stainproof surface layer being bonded optionally through an adhesive material, a cold plasma or corona discharge-modified surface portion of the silicone polymer layer or a cold plasma or corona discharge-modified and graft polymerization-modified surface portion of the silicone polymer layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing a water-proof sheet by forming a polymer coating on both the surfaces of a fibrous substrate fabric. At first, the fibrous substrate fabric is treated with a water repellant, and both the surfaces are subjected to the low temperature plasma treatment or corona discharge treatment. Then, a polymer coating is formed on both the surfaces. According to this process, the peel strength of the polymer coating is improved and the water absorbing property is reduced substantially to zero. If an inorganic fiber substrate fabric is treated according to this process, the bending resistance is highly improved in the resulting water-proof sheet.

Abstract: A stainproof, flame-resistant composite sheet material including at least one silicone polymer layer containing a silicone resin or rubber and optionally a flame-resistant inorganic filler and at least one stainproof surface layer containing at least one synthetic thermoplastic stain-resistant, weathering-resistant polymeric material, the silicone polymer layer and the stainproof surface layer being bonded optionally through an adhesive material, a cold plasma or corona discharge-modified surface portion of the silicone polymer layer or a cold plasma or corona discharge-modified and graft polymerization-modified surface portion of the silicone polymer layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for preparing a water-proof sheet by forming a polymer coating on both the surfaces of a fibrous substrate fabric. At first, the fibrous substrate fabric is treated with a water repellant, and both the surfaces are subjected to the low temperature plasma treatment or corona discharge treatment. Then, a polymer coating is formed on both the surfaces. According to this process, the peel strength of the polymer coating is improved and the water absorbing property is reduced substantially to zero. If an inorganic fiber substrate fabric is treated according to this process, the bending resistance is highly improved in the resulting water-proof sheet.

Abstract: Textile fabrics are firmly lap welded to each other by superposing two end portions of one or two fabrics on each other while interposing a piece of a synthetic polymeric bonding tape between the superposed two end portions and by applying a high frequency wave treatment and/or heat treatment to the interposed portion of the bonding tape through at least one of the superposed end portions while pressing them, to melt the interposed portion of the bonding tape thereby lap welding the end portions of the fabric or fabrics to each other.

Abstract: A white cover sheet material capable of reflecting ultraviolet rays, comprises at least one outer surface layer thereof which comprises (A) a substantially colorless matrix material comprising a thermoplastic polymer material and (B) a white ultraviolet ray-reflecting agent comprising ZrO.sub.2, the cover sheet material being difficult to be distinguished from snow surface not only by naked eye, but also, by an ultraviolet ray inspecting device.

Abstract: A water-proof fabric capable of providing a fuse-bonding activity by applying a high frequency wave treatment or heating treatment thereto, which is characterized in that at least one fuse-bonding region is formed on at least one surface of the water-proof fabric by coating the surface with a polymeric fuse-bonding agent capable of providing an adhering activity when a high frequency wave treatment or heating treatment is applied thereto.

Abstract: A water-impermeable sheet material capable of preventing formation of water drops thereon, has one or two water-impermeable layers, at least one of which layers holds, on the surface thereof, a water drop-preventing agent in the form of fine solid particles and consisting of at least one hydrophilic but water-insoluble substance, at least a portion of the water drop-preventing agent being exposed to the ambient atmosphere.

Abstract: Tarpaulins having great tearing strength, which are produced by weaving base fabrics from the mixture of a principal thread and another thread being superior to the principal thread in either of breaking elongation, breaking strength and breaking work or being different from the principal thread in adhesive strength with respect to film, or from the mixture of the principal thread to be used for warp and woof and the another binding yarn being superior to the principal thread in either of breaking elongation, breaking strength and breaking work or being different from the principal thread in adhesive strength, and by forming films consisting of plastics, rubbers or mixtures thereof on the base fabrics by application or adhesion.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously coating a sheet material concurrently with a plurality of coating liquids in the pattern of a plurality of stripes, having a coating liquid-feeding device having a plurality of parallel compartments each defined by a pair of vertical partitioning plates and an inclined guide plate for introducing a coating liquid onto a portion of the sheet material, each partitioning plate having a bottom edge thereof having a profile in the form of an arc bulged downward from an imaginary straight line drawn between lowermost ends of both side edges of the partitioning plate.