Abstract: In order to maintain the dust collection efficiency, it comprises: a filtration chamber 20 which has an carbon fiber outlet 10 from which carbon fibers are discharged and to which a gas including the carbon fibers is introduced; a flexible cylindrical filter cloth 22 one end of which is suspended in the filtration chamber and which collects the carbon fibers in the gas in order to clean up the gas; and a pathway 30 for cleaned-up gas which is connected to the filtration chamber 20 through the cylindrical filter cloth 22 and which allows the cleaned-up gas to pass through it.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing carbon fibrous structures each of which comprises a three dimensional network of carbon fibers, which is characterized in that, in the procedure of carbon fiber vapor phase deposition utilizing decomposition of organic carbon compound, at least two kinds of organic carbon compounds as carbon sources are in existence at least at predetermined thermal decomposition reaction temperature range in a reaction furnace and partial pressures of gases of these compounds are regulated so that these compounds are decomposed at mutually different decomposition temperatures, and/or a raw material gas supplied into the reaction furnace is forced to form a turbulent flow. It is possible to obtain efficiently the carbon fibrous structures each of which comprises a three dimensional network of carbon fibers and which are suitable as additives to be added to solid materials, such as resin, ceramics, metal, etc.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing fine carbon fibers' aggregates having a median diameter of not more than 30 ?m, which comprises a pulverization step where a composition which includes (a) fine carbon fibers' aggregates having a median diameter of not less than 30 ?m and (b) a dispersion medium undergoes acceleration in order to form a turbulent flow and/or collision flow, thereby shearing force and/or impacting force exert on the (a) component included in the composition and thus the (a) component is pulverized, wherein the value of [ID/IG of fine carbon fibers' aggregates after pulverization of the (a) component]/[ID/IG of fine carbon fibers' aggregates before pulverization of the (a) component] (wherein the ID/IG is calculated from measurement values determined by Raman spectroscopic analysis using 514 nm light of the argon laser) is in the range of 0.7 to 1.5.

Abstract: A high-reliability computer program, a program executing device, a program creating program for creating a high-reliability computer program, and a state displaying program are provided. The computer program is constituted of a set of capsule programs having the same structure and executed by a computer. Each capsule program allows a computer to function open data area elements where open data acquirable by another capsule program is set, open data acquiring elements for acquiring the open data set in the open data area elements in another capsule program, and main processing elements for executing a predetermined computation of the open data acquired by the open data acquiring elements and setting at least a part of the result of the computation as the open data in the open data area elements.

Abstract: There is provided a high-efficiency DC-DC converter which comprises a voltage resonance circuit to which electric power from a low-voltage direct-current power supply, including a household fuel cell and a solar cell, is input and performs DC-AC conversion by zero-voltage switching, an insulating high-frequency transformer which transmits the converted power, a current resonance circuit which is provided on the secondary side of the transformer and performs zero-current switching, a rectifier circuit which rectifies the output from the current resonance circuit, and a smoothing circuit which rectifies the output from the rectifier circuit.

Abstract: A polymer gel electrolyte composition includes a crosslinked polymer network matrix having a three-dimensional crosslinked structure that includes a solution of an electrolyte in a non-aqueous solvent, and a non-crosslinked polymer included within the crosslinked polymer network matrix. The non-crosslinked polymer includes (a) an ethylene unit and/or propylene unit, and (b) an unsaturated carboxylic acid unit having a carboxyl group esterified by a polyalkylene glycol having one terminal hydroxyl group protected.

Abstract: A method includes determining a first time by a first determining system. The method also includes determining a second time and a spatial position of a terminal receiving the second time, by a second determining system which is different from and independent of the first determining system. The terminal stores, in combination, the first time determined by the first determining system and the second time and the position determined by the second determining system, at each time of determining the spatial position of the terminal, in such a manner that the first time, the second time and the position are arranged in a row when they are outputted, wherein the first and second times are independent of each other.

Abstract: A GPS positioning system that has: at least one mobile station to measure a positional coordinate by receiving radio wave from a satellite; a plurality of fixed stations that have predetermined positional coordinates and receive radio wave from the satellite; and arithmetic processing means, which is connected with at least one mobile station and a plurality of fixed stations via communication, and that transmits correction data suitable for the mobile station to the mobile station based on positioning data transmitted from the mobile station.

Abstract: A multimedia direct communication system linked with HTTP protocol, which comprises application programs and a Web server, wherein the application programs are installed into a plurality of client personal computers (PCs), reside in the PCs such that they are displayed for many hours on the PCs occupying a part of the space on the display of the PCs, and are linked at all times with a Web server via HTTP; the Web server has a CGI interface and is connected to each of the PCs through communication circuits to execute the HTTP communication programs and applications; and each client can transfer (chat) electronic mails with each other in pseudo-real time via Internet and/or Intranet using the application programs.

Abstract: A polymer gel electrolyte composition includes a crosslinked polymer network matrix having a three-dimensional crosslinked structure that includes a solution of an electrolyte in a non-aqueous solvent, and a non-crosslinked polymer included within the crosslinked polymer network matrix. The non-crosslinked polymer includes (a) an ethylene unit and/or propylene unit, and (b) an unsaturated carboxylic acid unit having a carboxyl group esterified by a polyalkylene glycol having one terminal hydroxyl group protected.

Abstract: A GPS positioning system comprises a fixed station and a mobile station. The mobile station has: positional positioning means; imaging means; direction detecting means; and arithmetic processing means. The positional positioning means measures positional coordinates by receiving radio weve from a satellite. The imaging means is arranged in a predetermined position for the GPS positional positioning means. The direction detecting means detects a photographing direction during photographig by the imaging means. The arithmetic processing means forms landscape data in which imaging data that is an output from the imaging means is associated with orientation data that is an output from the direction detecting means.

Abstract: A GPS positioning system comprises a fixed station and a mobile station. The mobile station has: positional positioning means; imaging means; direction detecting means; and arithmetic processing means. The positional positioning means measures positional coordinates by receiving radio wave from a satellite. The imaging means is arranged in a predetermined position for the GPS positional positioning means. The direction detecting means detects a photographing direction during photographing by the imaging means. The arithmetic processing means forms landscape data in which imaging data that is an output from the imaging means is associated with orientation data that is an output from the direction detecting means.

Abstract: Two independent determining systems are used, wherein time or a point of time is determined by one determining system and the spatial position is determined by the other determining system, and wherein the time or the point of time and the position thus determined by the determining systems are stored in a terminal. A position determining apparatus comprises a GPS antenna for receiving the radio wave from a GPS satellite and a GPS receiver for receiving the data from the GPS antenna to determine the position, wherein the GPS receiver includes a processing unit, and thereby the processing unit processes the position coordinate data by the GPS position determination and the time data in another independent time system by correlating them with each other (FIG. 1).

Abstract: Near infrared rays of .lambda.1, .lambda.2, .lambda.3 in wavelength which are different from and near to one another are irradiated from a light source (2) to a part being measured (F) of a living body in such a state that vein bloodstream at the part being measured is stopped by applying a press force of a cuff (8), and the intensities of the transmitted near infrared rays of .lambda., .lambda.2, .lambda.3 in wavelength are detected by a photodetector (4) at the same time. In a processing circuit (14), the absorbance secondary differential value of the near infrared rays by the part being measured (F) is calculated on the basis of the transmitted light intensity detection values thus detected at the same time with respect to the three wavelengths, the variation width thereof within a predetermined time is calculated and then the blood sugar value in the living body is determined from the absorbance secondary differential value variation width on the basis of a calibration curve.

Abstract: In order to subject a cellulosic material such as insulating paper onto and into which transformer high-voltage insulating oil containing PCB has adhered and permeated to washing that removes the PCB etc. to an undetectable value, the cellulosic material to which PCB etc. has adhered is placed in DMI, sulfolane or other aprotic solvent containing an alkali such as caustic soda and stirred.

Abstract: A method of reclaiming waste polyvinyl chloride according to the present invention includes the steps of bringing industrial waste containing polyvinyl chloride into contact with a solvent in which polyvinyl chloride can be dissolved, to remove polyvinyl chloride from the industrial waste, removing substances which cannot be dissolved in the solvent from a polyvinyl chloride solution consisting of the solvent and the polyvinyl dissolved therein, and recovering reclaimed polyvinyl chloride as a substance left over when the solvent is removed from the polyvinyl solution. The industrial waste to be reclaimed includes polyvinyl chips obtained from waste electric wires, polyvinyl chloride-impregnated wallpaper and used agricultural polyvinyl chloride sheets. The solvent used in the present invention consists of at least one kind of organic solvent selected from the group composed of methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone and dioctyl phthalate.

Abstract: A safe and reliable method of decomposing halogenated aromatic compounds, wherein a heat-resistant alkaline polar solvent containing halogenated aromatic compounds is contacted with a alkali at a temperature ranging from about 100.degree. C. to 300.degree. C. in order to decompose the halogenated aromatic compounds. The used solvent is removed of solid contents of salts, alkalis and the like, whereby it can be recycled.

Abstract: A deodorizer comprises a hydrophilic solvent extract of fruit-bodies of champignon mushroom or powder of the extract as an effective component. The extract of champignon mushroom used as an effective component can be prepared by a method which comprises the step of immersing the mushroom in a hydrophilic solvent at a temperature ranging from 60.degree. to 100.degree. C. for 15 minutes to 2 hours to perform extraction. The extract can further be treated to obtain the effective components in the form of powder.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoplastic cement composition, characterized in that the composition can be easily processed thermoplastically during molding and that when the cement component constituting the composition is hardened by the absorption of water, the composition loses its thermoplasticity to give a product having excellent heat resistance and other properties.The thermoplastic cement composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic, 50 to 600 parts by weight of a hydraulic cement and/or an air-hardening cement and 0.1 to 20 parts by weight of a hydrophilic substance.

Abstract: A safe and reliable method of removing halogenated aromatic compounds present in small amounts in hydrocarbon oil constituted mainly by non-aromatic hydrocarbon oil. The hydrocarbon oil is contacted with a heat-resistant alkaline polar solvent in the presence of an alkaline at a temperature ranging from about 100.degree. C. to 300.degree. C., and the non-aromatic hydrocarbon oil and heat-resistant alkaline polar solvent are then separated, thereby removing the halogenated aromatic compounds from the hydrocarbon oil.