Abstract: The present invention provides an odor-modulating agent that modulates malodors generated in daily living environments or industries to different odors so that harm caused by the malodors can be easily solved, and an odor-modulating method. Specifically, the present invention provides an odor-modulating agent comprising at least one oxygen-containing cyclic compound selected from the group consisting of furan compounds, pyran compounds, and cyclopentanone derivatives.

Abstract: The present invention provides an odor-modulating agent that modulates malodors generated in daily living environments or industries to different odors so that harm caused by the malodors can be easily solved, and an odor-modulating method. Specifically, the present invention provides an odor-modulating agent comprising at least one oxygen-containing cyclic compound selected from the group consisting of furan compounds, pyran compounds, and cyclopentanone derivatives.

Abstract: A first reinforcing fiber layer is formed of reinforcing fibers which are wound around an outer periphery of a mandrel. The reinforcing fibers are aligned in parallel to a direction (+? direction) in which the reinforcing fibers intersect with an annular direction (0° direction) of the mandrel, and seamlessly continue in the annular direction of the mandrel by an amount of at least one rotation.

Abstract: This invention provides a laser marking method that can form a very minute mark of a predetermined shape, such as a letter or pattern, with clarity and high solidity, on the surface of a substrate. The laser marking method of the invention comprises the steps of (1) depositing a coloring material on the surface of a substrate of thermoplastic material to form a thin film of the coloring material, and (2) applying a laser beam to the thin film of the coloring material in conformity with a predetermined marking shape to cause the portions of the substrate irradiated with the laser beam to soften and to cause the thus softened portions to mix with the coloring material, thereby developing the predetermined marking shape on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A toroidal pressure vessel having extremely high pressure resistance has laminated latitudinal reinforcing fiber layers to improve a strength in a latitudinal direction of the pressure vessel. Moreover, putting reinforcing fibers constituting those laminated latitudinal reinforcing fiber layers in continuity enables further improvement of strength in the latitudinal direction of the pressure vessel, for example compared with a case where the reinforcing fibers are divided for each layer.

Abstract: This invention provides a laser marking method that can form a very minute mark of a predetermined shape, such as a letter or pattern, with clarity and high solidity, on the surface of a substrate. The laser marking method of the invention comprises the steps of (1) depositing a coloring material on the surface of a substrate of thermoplastic material to form a thin film of the coloring material, and (2) applying a laser beam to the thin film of the coloring material in conformity with a predetermined marking shape to cause the portions of the substrate irradiated with the laser beam to soften and to cause the thus softened portions to mix with the coloring material, thereby developing the predetermined marking shape on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A novel process for producing a dry preform for a composite material takes advantage of the fact that a reinforcing filament assembly, when consisting of a fiber reinforcement layer a, formed by stringing a first set of parallel strands of fiber reinforcement over a part or all of the plane within any desired shape along the straight axis 2, and a fiber reinforcement layer b, formed by stringing a second set of parallel strands of fiber reinforcement over the plane at an angle ? with respect to the straight axis 2, such that 0°<?<180°, the part of the reinforcing filament assembly that consists solely of the fiber reinforcement b can be deformed as desired. According to this process, strands c of fiber reinforcement are strung using a fiber reinforcement string jig as shown in FIGS. 8(A) and 8(B). The layers of the strung strands of fiber reinforcement are brought together by a simple means such as stitching.

Abstract: A preform for a fiber-reinforced composite material including a bent portion along a curved line for bending, a flange portion corresponding to an outer circumferential portion, and a semi-cylindrical portion formed by bending an inner circumferential portion along the curved line for bending located in a flat plane or a curved plane region. The preform is formed from a precursor having a predetermined extension. The outer circumferential portion corresponds to a first region where a first plurality of reinforced fibers is partially disposed in parallel along the curved line for bending. The inner circumferential portion corresponds to a second region constituted solely of a second plurality of reinforced fibers disposed throughout the entire area, so as to intersect the first plurality of reinforced fibers at a predetermined angle in the first region.

Abstract: A unidirectional three dimensional fiber structure is provided which does not require weaving, displays a high level of interlayer strength and does not suffer from cracking, and which can also be easily produced with any arbitrary cross-section. A unidirectional three dimensional fiber structure is produced by inserting a plurality of long fibers which have been aligned unidirectionally into an inlet at one end of a cylindrical die with a plurality of needle holes in the peripheral walls thereof, and then performing needlepunch through the needle holes while drawing the plurality of long fibers out from an outlet at the opposite end of the cylindrical die.

Abstract: A fiber-bond type ceramic material 4 is produced by using as raw material fibers 1 inorganic fibers of Si—M—C—O synthesized by melt spinning polycarbosilane, then infusibilizing the produced threads, and firing the set threads, forming from the raw material fibers a woven fabric 2 having all the fibers thereof extended perpendicularly or obliquely relative to the direction of compression during the course of a hot-press fabrication at a weaving step 12, heat-treating the woven fabric in the air, thereby preparing a woven fabric of oxidized fibers 3 provided with an oxide layer on the surface thereof at an oxidizing step 14, and subjecting the woven fabric of oxidized fibers to a hot-press fabrication while compressing the fabric in the direction of the compression thereby causing the oxide layers on the surface to adhere fast to each other and form a matrix at a hot-press step 16.

Abstract: A yarn, cloth, woven fabric, knitted fabric or nonwoven fabric composed of natural cellulose fibers, each fiber having incorporated therein a water-insoluble inorganic metal compound, and each fiber having at least one cured polycarboxylic acid combined therewith, said polycarboxylic acid being one selected from the group consisting of polycarboxylic acids and partial salts thereof, and a process for preparing the same.

Abstract: A master pattern for upper garments comprising three parts, a front part, a rear part and a lateral part integrated with a sleeve bottom, wherein sewing lines for sewing the lateral part to the front and rear parts are substantially parallel and straight, and a sewing line for sewing the front and rear parts to the lateral part and a sleeve attaching line bulge toward the lateral part to describe an L-shape with the sleeve root of the sleeve attaching line forming the apex, the sleeve bottom of the sleeve attaching line being located at the bottom of the cross-section of the arm root of the human body.

Abstract: A master pattern for upper garments comprising three parts, a front part, a rear part and a lateral part integrated with a sleeve bottom, wherein sewing lines for sewing the lateral part to the front and rear parts are substantially parallel and straight, and a sewing line for sewing the front and rear parts to the lateral part and a sleeve attaching line bulge toward the lateral part to describe an L-shape with the sleeve root of the sleeve attaching line forming the apex, the sleeve bottom of the sleeve attaching line being located at the bottom of the cross-section of the arm root of the human body.

Abstract: Penicillin or related substances are added during the course of the cultivation of a streptococcus to recover SPF-100 from the culture broth. SPF-100 exhibits a broad range of molecular weight and may be classified into SPF-1 and SPF-2.SPF-100 has a direct cancericidal effect and an immunoactivation effect.