Abstract: An accelerator of the activity of hydrolase consisting of a coordination compound or a metal complex containing, as a ligand, an organic cyclic compound with carbonyl groups adjacent to each other in the structure shown in the following general formula I that are substantially in the same plane as each other; ##STR1## (wherein A is the cyclic compound moiety.

Abstract: A resin used for magnetic recording media, comprising a vinyl chloride copolymer containing vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups as component units. The resin is made by a method which comprises polymerizing an organic solvent solution containing vinyl chloride, vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups in a reacting apparatus to thereby precipitate a vinyl chloride copolymer, the interior surface of said reacting apparatus, which comes into contact with said organic solvent solution being coated with a fluororesin.

Abstract: A resin used for magnetic recording media, comprising a vinyl chloride copolymer containing vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups as component units. The resin is made by a method which comprises polymerizing an organic solvent solution containing vinyl chloride, vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quanternary ammonium salt groups in a reacting apparatus to thereby precipitate a vinyl chloride copolymer, the interior surface of said reactin apparatus, which comes into contact with said organic solvent solution being coated with a fluororesin.

Abstract: An engineering plastic composition with excellent flowability, heat stability, and desirable mechanical properties is provided. The composition comprises an engineering plastic material and at least one p-quaterphenyl derivative of specific formula.

Abstract: A resin used for magnetic recording media, comprising a vinyl chloride copolymer containing vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups as component units. The resin is made by a method which comprises polymerizing an organic solvent solution containing vinyl chloride, vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups in a reacting apparatus to thereby precipitate a vinyl chloride copolymer, the interior surface of said reacting apparatus, which comes into contact with said organic solvent solution being coated with a fluororesin.

Abstract: A resin used for magnetic recording media, comprising a vinyl chloride copolymer containing vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups as component units. The resin is made by a method which comprises polymerizing an organic solvent solution containing vinyl chloride, vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups in a reacting apparatus to thereby precipitate a vinyl chloride copolymer, the interior surface of said reacting apparatus, which comes into contact with said organic solvent solution being coated with a fluororesin.

Abstract: A percutaneous-administration-type pharmaceutical preparation of nitroglycerin comprising a backing that is impervious to medicines, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is disposed on one surface of the backing, wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer contains alkyl (meth)acrylate copolymer in the concentration of 80-95% by weight and the nitroglycerin in the concentration of 5-20% by weight, said copolymer contains as major copolymer components alkyl (meth)acrylate with alkyl groups having 6 or more carbon atoms, which alkyl (meth)acrylates include 2-ethylhexylmethacrylate in the concentration of 40-90% by weight based on the total weight of said alkyl (meth)acrylates, and the copolymer has a rolling ball tack value of 2 or less. The preparation obtained makes it possible for nitroglycerin to be absorbed percutaneously at a controlled rate for long periods of time.

Abstract: There is provided a method for coating a metal substrate by the use of a polyvinylidene fluoride resin composition. The method comprises forming a coating film made of a melted resin composition on the surface of an undercoated metal substrate at a temperature of from 200.degree. to 350.degree. C., said resin composition containing a major amount of polyvinylidene fluoride and from 5 to 40% by weight of an inorganic filler based on the total weight of the resin composition; and precooling said coating film to a temperature T.sub.A and then keeping said coating film at the temperature T.sub.A for at least one minute, wherein said temperature T.sub.A (.degree.C.) satisfies the inequality:T.sub.C -10.degree.C..ltoreq.T.sub.A .ltoreq.T.sub.C +10.degree.C.,said T.sub.C (.degree.C.) being the crystallization temperature for the polyvinylidene fluoride.

Abstract: A ball valve and a method for fabricating this ball valve wherein a ball seat, formed of a synthetic resin, is mounted at each end of a flow passage in a ball of the valve. A sealing end portion of the ball seat contacts the spherical surface of the ball only in the closed position of the ball. In the open position, the lip falls within a recess surrounding the end of the flow passage in the ball. A gap of 0.3 to 0.7 mm is formed, in the open position, between the wall surface of the recess and the end of the lip. The end of the lip should fall, in the open position of the ball, about 0.2 mm inside an imaginary continuation of the surface of the ball at the recess.

Abstract: An electrochemical detection device comprising a cell unit that has a cell therein and a supporter that rotatably supports said cell unit and that is made in one piece with said cell unit, wherein said cell unit has a cell block that has a test solution introduction route through which a test solution flows after being introduced into the inside of said cell block and that has a test solution outlet route through which the test solution leaves the inside and that has a reference electrode and a counter electrode provided so that they come into contact with the test solution flowing from said test solution introduction route to said test solution outlet route; a gasket that has an opening constituting said cell, and that is in contact with said cell block so that said opening is connected with both the test solution introduction route and the test solution outlet route; a working electrode that faces said opening of the gasket, and said supporter has a pressure means that pushes said working electrode onto sai

Abstract: A process for producing a thermoplastic ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene composition having excellent moldability, which comprises mixing at room temperature to 100.degree. C. an ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene having an average molecular weight of at least 2,000,000 with an amount, effective for acting as a solvent to said polyethylene and improving the flowability of the polyethylene, of a flowability improver selected from the group consisting of (a) styrene, (b) alpha-methylstyrene, (c) chlorinated styrene and (d) a mixture of (a) and (b), wherein the amount of the flowability improver is 3 to 30 parts by weight for styrene and 3 to 30 parts by weight for alpha-methylstyrene and styrene, per 100 parts by weight of the ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene, and optionally admixing at least one member of the group consisting of a pigment, carbon black, a stabilizer, a lubricant and an inorganic filler.

Abstract: An interlayer for a laminated glass, said interlayer being composed of a film or sheet of a thermoplastic resin, at least one surface of the film or sheet of a thermoplastic resin having numerous coarse raised and depressed portions and numerous fine raised and depressed portions existing on the surfaces of the coarse raised and depressed portions, the average distance between two adjacent coarse depressed or raised portions being about 2 to about 10 times the 10-point average roughness of the coarse raised and depressed portions measured in accordance with ISO-R468.

Abstract: A composite molded article made of a nonwoven fibrous mat wherein inorganic monofilaments having a length of 10 to 200 mm and a daimeter of 2 to 30 micrometers are partially bonded with a thermoplastic resin binder, many voids being provided throughout the mat and a large number of fine holes communicating with the voids in the inside being formed in at least one surface of the mat; and processes for producing the same.

Abstract: A conductive fabric comprising conductive fibers and thermoplastic fibers with a higher heat shrinkage than that of said conductive fibers, said conductive fibers being crimped by heat shrinkage of said thermoplastic fibers. This invention also provides a conductive sheet or film comprising the conductive fabric and a base on which said conductive fabric is disposed, said conductive fabric and said base that are laminated together being fused into one piece by being heated at a temperature above the melting point of the thermoplastic fibers and melting said thermoplastic fibers.

Abstract: A heat transfer sheet comprises a substrate sheet and a heat transfer layer laminated on the substrate sheet and containing a dye which can be caused to migrate by heating to be transferred onto a transferable sheet, said heat transfer sheet containing a polyvinyl acetacetal resin as a binder component, the acetal moiety of said polyvinyl acetacetal resin being 50% by weight or more based on the total amount of the resin, and 80% by weight or more of said acetal moiety comprising polyvinyl acetacetal.A process for producing a polyvinyl acetacetal resin by the reaction of a polyvinyl alcohol and acetaldehyde in an aqueous phase in the presence of 4 to 10% by weight of an acid catalyst comprises initiating precipitation of an acetalated product by maintaining the reaction system at a temperature of 8.degree. to 17.degree. C. for 30 minutes or longer, and then maintaining said reaction at a temperature of 25.degree. to 40.degree. C.

Abstract: A ball valve and a method for fabricating this ball valve wherein a ball seat, formed of a synthetic resin, is mounted at each end of a flow passage in a ball of the valve. A sealing end portion of the ball seat contacts the spherical surface of the ball only in the closed position of the ball. In the open position, the lip falls within a recess surrounding the end of the flow passage in the ball. A gap of 0.3 to 0.7 mm is formed, in the open position, between the wall surface of the recess and the end of the lip. The end of the lip should fall, in the open position of the ball, about 0.2 mm inside an imaginary continuation of the surface of the ball at the recess.

Abstract: A method for closing the opening of each of the through-holes in the pipe-wall of a resin pipe and which extend parallel to the axis of the pipe, the method comprises pressing one end portion of the pipe in the direction parallel to the axis in a mold for closing the opening, the mold being connected to a high frequency current source, and heating the end portion by applying a high frequency current to the mold so as to melt the hole-partition walls which partition the through-holes, and the inner surface of the through-holes, thereby closing the opening.

Abstract: A ball valve is provided which comprises a valve body formed from a tubular member with a cylindrical hole extending therethrough, a stem having one end thereof projecting into the hole, and a ball fixed to an end of the stem. The ball has a circular bore extending diametrically therethrough, wherein the ball is spherical in shape with removed chordal segments corresponding to the bore. A seat carrier is inserted in the hole, the seat carrier having one end adjacent the ball, a connecting sleeve contacts the seat carrier at the other end thereof opposite the end adjacent the ball, and a union nut couples the connecting sleeve to the valve body. Diametrically opposed projections are provided on the inner surface of the valve body, the projections extending into the hole, recesses formed on the side of the seat carrier adjacent the one end thereof, and diametrically opposed grooves are formed in the side of the seat carrier adjacent the recesses.

Abstract: A resin used for magnetic recording media, comprising a vinyl chloride copolymer containing vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups as component units. The resin is made by a method which comprises polymerizing an organic solvent solution containing vinyl chloride, vinyl monomers with hydroxyl groups and vinyl monomers with quaternary ammonium salt groups in a reacting apparatus to thereby precipitate a vinyl chloride copolymer, the interior surface of said reacting apparatus, which comes into contact with said organic solvent solution being coated with a fluororesin.