Abstract: The present device has a wire drum connected to a sliding door through a wire cable and being rotated by the power of a motor, an electromagnetic brake which applies braking to the wire drum using a solenoid as the driving source, and a switch transistor which sends electricity to the solenoid when being turned on by a Hi signal from the output port of a controller. The interval between the solenoid and the switch transistor is connected through a line where the voltage level is raised when the switch transistor is turned off and the voltage level is lowered when the switch transistor is turned on. The line is connected through a failure detecting circuit to the input port of the controller.

Abstract: The invention provides an optical material being excellent in balance between the heat resistance, Abbe number and refractive index by providing a compound represented by the general formula (1): in the formula, k and n representing integers of 0 to 2 and 0 to 1, respectively, with the proviso that k and n are not simultaneously zero, and k=0 meaning that —(CH2)k- is not included in the formula.

Abstract: The polyimide metal laminate has at least one resin layer produced from a silica-dispersed polyimide composition obtained by reacting (A) alkoxysilane and/or its partial hydrolysis polycondensate with (B) an amino-containing compound having a functional group capable of forming a bond with silica, in the presence of water in a polyimide solution and/or a polyamic acid solution.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a product having a good crystal particle size distribution of a high-purity potassium fluorotantalate crystal or a high-purity potassium fluoroniobate crystal without using a physical method for particle classification. To that end, a method for manufacturing a high-purity potassium fluorotantalate crystal or a high-purity potassium fluoroniobate crystal is used, wherein the recrystallizing step comprising a first cooling process of cooling a saturated solution with a temperature of 60° C. to 90° C. obtained in the dissolving step at a cooling speed of T° C./hour until the solution temperature of the saturated solution becomes a temperature of the range of 35 to 50° C., and a second cooling process of cooling the solution at a cooling speed of [T?18]° C./hour to [T?1]° C./hour from the end of the first cooling process to the solution temperature becoming a temperature of 10 to 20° C.

Abstract: A sealant resin composition comprises 60 to 95 weight percent of ethylene polymer (PE) and 5 to 40 weight percent of 1-butene polymer (PB), wherein a melt flow rate (MFR) ratio between the two polymers (MFRPE/MFRPB) is not less than 1. A laminated film obtained by extrusion laminating the resin composition as a sealant film layer over a substrate film adheres tightly to other plastic film by heat sealing and gives a low degree of dependence of heat seal strength on temperature in the heat sealing stage. At the same time the laminated film has an easy peel feature, such that it is readily separated from sealed surfaces after heat sealing, and does not develop any phenomenon of resin threading from the sealed surfaces when they are peeled apart. Accordingly the resin composition is suitably used for the food packaging material.

Abstract: There is provided a process for preparing a 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinone by using an alkylene oxide as a first component, using at least one of (A) carbon dioxide and a monoalkylamine; (B) a carbon dioxide compound of the monoalkylamine; and (C) an 1,3-dialkylurea, reacting the first and second components by heating at 50° C. or higher to give 1,3-dialkyl-2-imidazolidinone, characterized in that the total molar amount of a molar feed amount of the monoalkylamine included in the component (A), a molar feed amount of the monoalkylamine part of the carbon dioxide compound of monoalkylamine, component (B), and the double of a molar feed amount of the 1,3-dialkylurea, component (C), is at least three folds of a molar feed amount of the alkylene oxide. The preparation process of this invention uses an industrially readily available alkylene oxide as a starting material and can be suitably conducted with a higher yield in an industrial scale.

Abstract: A conductive polymer material can exhibit good heat resistance and good moisture resistance, in which the conductive polymer comprises as a dopant at least one of aromatic sulfonic acid derivatives represented by general formula 1: wherein at least one of R1 to R6 represents a sulfonic acid group having a counter cation selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline-earth ion and a transition metal ion belonging to groups 8 to 10 in the periodic table; and the remaining R1 to R6, which may be the same or different, represent hydrogen, alkyl having four or less carbon atoms or phenyl; or any two or more of R1 to R6 may be combined together to form an aromatic or aliphatic ring; and general formula 2: wherein at least one of R7 to R10 represents a sulfonic acid group having a counter cation selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline-earth ion and a transition metal ion belonging to groups 8 to 10 in the periodic table

Abstract: A cylindrical worm 25 is attached to an output shaft of a motor, a first worm wheel 26 and a second worm wheel 27 are disposed on both the sides of the axial center of the cylindrical worm 25, the first worm wheel 26 and a wire drum are supported by a first support shaft 28, and the second worm wheel 27 and a swing arm are supported by a second support shaft 32. A first clutch is interposed between the first worm wheel 26 and the wire drum, a second clutch is interposed between the second worm wheel 27 and the swing arm, and the swing arm and the wire drum are rotated by controlling the first and second clutches with the motor rotating continuously.

Abstract: The invention provides a method for producing a cytosine nucleoside compound from pentose-1-phosphate and cytosine or a derivative thereof using a nucleoside phosphorylase reactive to cytosine or a bacterium having the enzyme activity. The invention also provides a method for specifically reducing an activity to degrade the substrates or the product, resulting in efficient production of the cytosine nucleoside compound. According to the invention, little by-product is produced in producing cytonucleocide compounds.

Abstract: A polyolefin wax for a coating material which includes an ethylene (co)polymer having a number-average molecular weight within the range of from 400 to 5000 as measured by gel permeation chromatography. The polyolefin wax has a volume average particle diameter in the range of from 0.3 ?m to 20 ?m wherein the relation between a particle diameter a (?m), in which the weight ratio of the large particle diameter side in weight particle-size distribution is 10%, and a particle diameter b (?m), in which the weight ratio of the small particle diameter side in weight particle size distribution is 10%, satisfies the a/b?4 and the relation between the crystallization temperature Tc (° C.), measured at a cooling rate of 2° C./min) as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and the density D (kg/m3) as measured by the density gradient tube method satisfies the equation 0.501×D?366?Tc.

Abstract: A catalyst of a water insoluble vanadyl sulfate or a complex catalyst, in which a specific oxide and a specific sulfate are combined to the water insoluble vanadyl sulfate are excellent not only in their activity, durability and SO2 resistance, not only in substantially no oxidization of SO2 to SO3 as in HCl resistant. Therefore, using this catalyst, a decomposition treatment of an organic halide(s) can be carried out with high efficiency and good stability. In particular, a efficient decomposition treatment of an organic halides(s) can be carried out also in the cases that dust is coexist; the gas to be treated contains SOX or HCl; or they generate in the decomposition area.

Abstract: The process for producing an olefinic polymer comprises introducing a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon in a liquid phase state and in a vapor phase state into the aforementioned fluidized-bed and (co)polymerizing in the condition that when the inside radius of the cylinder section of the fluidized-bed reactor is defined as a distance of 1, the relationship between the concentration (C1) of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon put in a liquid state in the peripheral portion of the cylinder section at a relative distance of 0.7 to 1.0 from the center of the cylinder section as a start point and the concentration (C2) of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon put in a liquid state in the center portion of the cylinder section at a relative distance less than 0.7 from the center fulfills the following equation: C1>C2 at a place close to the upstream section of said gas distributing plate.

Abstract: A polyolefin resin composition comprises (A) 10 to 100 wt % of a propylene/?-olefin random copolymer obtained by random copolymerization of propylene and a C2 to C20 ?-olefin, and having a melting point as measured by DSC of 40 to 115° C. and an ?-olefin content of 5 to 70 mol %, (B) 0 to 90 wt % of a random propylene resin having a melting point as measured by DSC of 120 to 150° C., and (C) an alicyclic saturated hydrocarbon resin having a glass transition point of 20 to 100° C. and a number average molecular weight of 1200 or less, the component (C) being used in an amount of 5 to 100 weight parts per 100 weight parts of the total amount of the components (A) and (B). A single-layer or multilayer film obtained from the polyolefin resin composition can be stretched at a lower temperature than in the conventional one, and a shrink film obtained by such a low-temperature stretching has a higher shrinkage factor than one stretched at a high temperature, and also has a small natural shrinkage factor.

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: The object of the invention is to provide an adhesive sheet suitable for applications to surface protection involving cutting processing, and in particular an adhesive sheet suitable for applications to surface protection requiring excellent cutting processability, chemical solution treatment and dicing, particularly in the fields of electronic circuit material, semiconductor material and optical material demanding high performance and qualities, are not detrimental to the environment. An adhesive sheet 10 having an adhesive layer 2 laminated on at least one side of a substrate layer 1, wherein the substrate layer 1 contains an olefin polymer, and has a tensile modulus of elasticity and tear strength in a specific range.

Abstract: Water-repellent porous silica having uniform pores, which comprises silica skeleton wherein fluorine atoms are fixed through covalent bonds and which has an alkali metal content of not more than 10 ppb, is synthesized. By the water-repellent porous silica, a water-repellent porous silica film having uniform pores, which is applicable to a light functional material or an electron functional material, a process for preparing the same and uses thereof can be provided.

Abstract: An outlet port in the upper end of a fluid flow passageway vertically formed in a flow rate measuring section (8) disposed in a fluid storage recess (23) communicating with a fluid inlet pipe through an opening (21a) communicates with a fluid outlet pipe (22) through an opening (22a). The heat type flow rate sensor (10) disposed in the flow rate measuring section (8) has a fin plate projecting into the fluid flow passageway through a sensor mount hole (8c). The flow rate measuring section (8) is formed with an auxiliary flow passageway for leading the fluid within the fluid storage recess (23) to the inlet port (811) in the lower end of the fluid flow passageway, the auxiliary flow passageway extending in parallel with the fluid flow passageway and having fluid introducing ports (822, 823, 824) and a fluid delivering port (821) leading to the fluid flow passageway.

Abstract: A photocatalyst module comprising a substrate, for example, a metallic substrate, a layer of a photocatalyst such as titanium oxide, and a protective layer containing lithium silicate provided between the substrate and the layer of a photocatalyst wherein the protective layer can sufficiently withstand the heat in a step for forming the layer of a photocatalyst by a flame spray coating method and can prevents oxidation and/or decomposition of the substrate is disclosed.

Abstract: The method of the present invention for producing a urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer composition foam comprises the steps of: adding and mixing 0.1 to 30 parts by weight of carbon dioxide (B) to 100 parts by weight of a urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer composition (A) in a molten state, wherein said urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer composition (A) comprises a urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer (A-1) and other thermoplastic elastomer (A-2) in an (A-1)/(A-2) ratio of 20/80 to 99/1 by weight, to form a molten urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer composition (C) which is in a state of a mixture of the urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer composition (A) and the carbon dioxide (B) (gas dissolving step); and lowering a temperature of said molten urethane-based thermoplastic elastomer composition (C) (cooling step).

Abstract: The invention is a process for continuously producing an amide compound by reacting a microorganism fungus body containing nitrile hydratase or a processed product of the microorganism fungus body with a nitrile compound in an aqueous medium, characterized in that after contacting said fungus body or said processed product of said fungus body with said nitrile compound in said aqueous medium, a reaction solution thus obtained is further subjected to reaction under conditions having a plug flow region, and according to the invention, an amide compound aqueous solution of a high concentration a high purity can be easily obtained in an extremely high conversion rate of a nitrile compound without a condensation process.