Abstract: A soft, breathable elastic laminate of an elastic film loaded with a filler having a particle size suitable for pore formation and stretched in at least two directions to form a plurality of micropores bonded to a nonwoven web. In accordance with one embodiment, the elastic film is water vapor impermeable prior to being stretched.

Abstract: A coating composition for screen printing containing a fluorine rubber in a dissolved state is disclosed, wherein the solvent for the fluorine rubber comprises 60 to 100% by weight, based on the total solvent, of an ester ranging in boiling point from isoamyl acetate to isobornyl acetate. The coating composition which, even when formulated as a thick solution for providing a thick coat as used in the production of a metal gasket, hardly clogs the screen thereby making continuous coating possible.

Abstract: An aqueous printing ink composition containing finely dispersed pigments and a synthetic polymer binder, the binder containing: (a) finely dispersed, aqueous-basic insoluble emulsion (co)polymers having a number average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to 1,000,000 and a glass transition temperature of up to 0.degree. C., in intimate admixture with (b) aqueous-basic soluble or dispersible (co) polymers having a number average molecular weight lower than that of the (co)polymers of component (a) and a glass transition temperature of at least 0.degree. C.

Abstract: This invention provides improved methods and compositions for achieving material coloration using particle scattering. These coloration effects can be designed to be either highly stable or dependent upon the switching effects of either temperature, integrated thermal exposure, moisture absorption, or exposure to actinic radiation. Articles employing materials with these coloration effects are described. Composition comprise a solid, light-transmitting matrix component having a non-liquid particle scattering colorant dispersed. Articles are produced wherein another solid second matrix component has an electronic transition colorant dispersed therein and the first and second compositions are disposed on one another and optionally interpenetrate each other. Colored articles are produced in the form of fibers, films and molded articles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of electrophotographically manufacturing a phosphor screen 22 comprising a multiplicity of color-emitting screen elements arranged in color groups on an interior surface of a faceplate panel 12 of a color CRT 10. The multiplicity of screen elements is exposed to a source 35 of UV radiation to stimulate the screen elements to emission. The emission from the screen elements is utilized to determine, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a first emission characteristic of each color group of screen elements. Then, a subsequent manufacturing step (58, 62) is performed that affects the screen elements, and the multiplicity of screen elements is re-exposed to the source of UV radiation to stimulate the screen elements to emission. The resultant emission is utilized to determine, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a second emission characteristic from each color group of screen elements.

Abstract: An ink composition suitable for ink jet printing operations comprising an aqueous resin dispersion and an aqueous colorant where said ink composition is substantially free of volatile organic compounds. Compositions are provided that form printed images that, without curing, are solvent-washable with isopropanol, ethanol, water, and mixtures thereof, and are retortable, without curing. Ink jet compositions capable of forming colored images capable of being washed with isopropanol, ethanol, water, and mixtures thereof, after curing, are also provided. Finally, ink jet inks capable of withstanding washing with strong organic solvents, such as methylethylketone and methanol, after curing, are also provided.

Abstract: A non-woven fabric formed from a blend of lyocell fibers and polyester fibers has good loftiness and softness, low lint level, improved wet strength, good working properties as well as fluid retention properties.

Abstract: The present invention provides a coated fabric, including a lightly fused coating of thermoplastic powder material dispersed across at least a portion of a fabric substrate to a degree at which the air permeability is reduced to a level not greater than 1 cubic foot per minute per square foot of fabric at 0.5 inches of water while a high degree of flexibility is maintained.

Abstract: A dry etch process for use in the fabrication of integrated circuits which use SiN etch stop layers is disclosed. The process is conducted in a reactive-ion etch reactor and employs a gaseous etchant mixture comprised of octaflourocyclobutane (C.sub.4 F.sub.8), carbon monoxide (CO) and Ar. The specific process parameters effect the formation of a polymer on SiN but not on oxide, thereby resulting in a very high etch rate selectivity of the oxide to the nitride.

Abstract: This invention provides a ball-point pen suited to low-viscosity aqueous ink. This ball-point pen includes a ball-point pen refill in which an ink reservoir communicates with a tip for holding a tip ball via a joint, wherein the ink reservoir is filled with water type ball-point pen ink containing at least one type of a solvent selected from the group consisting of ethyleneglycol, diethyleneglycol, propyleneglycol, and glycerin in an amount of 5 to 40 wt % of the total ink amount, a crosslinking acrylic acid polymer in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0 wt % of the total ink amount, a pigment in an amount of 5 to 10 wt % of the total ink amount, and the balance primarily consisting of water, and the tip has a spring which in a normal state urges and brings the tip ball into intimate contact with the inner edge of a ball holding portion at the front end of the tip and releases the intimate contact when writing is performed.

Abstract: A decorated shaped product is formed with an expression or design applied to a shaped material. The design closely resembles an actual expression of a source material such as a natural object. The shaped base material is formed with a flow pattern thereon. A transfer pattern is provided with at least a portion which is subjected to a concealment exposing treatment and which is printed on the shaped base material. Also, a method manufacturing the product and the shaped base material are disclosed.

Abstract: A papermaking fabric primarily for use as a press felt comprises basalt fibers.

Abstract: Olefin/carbon monoxide alternating polymers are flash-spun to form plexifilamentary products, pulp products, and foam products from alcohol or halogenated hydrocarbon solvents having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Correction fluids are provided which include a cationic stain blocking agent, an opacifying pigment and water. Preferred opacifying pigments include an alumina treated titanium dioxide and a clay. The new correction fluids have improved bleed resistance and hiding power.

Abstract: Electrophotographic transfer paper having a coating layer provided on at least one surface of base paper and pigments and adhesive agents as main components, wherein resistivity (VR) and surface resistivity (SV) of electrophotographic transfer paper after the humidity has adjusted to 10.degree. C., 30% RH for 12 hours satisfy the expression Log(VR/SR).ltoreq.1.5. Using such electrophotographic transfer paper, occurrence of discharge mark and occurrence of density irregularity in a high-density image region are prevented to thereby make it possible to provide electrophotographic transfer paper excellent in fixing characteristic, nonshowthrough, partial deletion and generation of paper dust.

Abstract: A combined vapor barrier and water assembly for securement to the underside of covers of heated water tubs and pools stands by and around an intentionally made drain opening in an otherwise water tight cover, to provide a drain passageway to be used, if necessary, whenever rain water might unwantedly enter the interior of the cover, and while standing by, to provide a vapor barrier preventing heated vapors from rising upwardly through the drain passageway. In a preferred embodiment, at least two dense weave cloth members, spaced apart, each extend completely across the cross section of the drain passageway, while positioned within a hollow contoured housing of the assembly, which is adapted to be secured to the underside of the cover round the intentionally made drain opening, to provide the drain passageway for the exiting rain water that might unwantedly collect in a cover which was originally watertight.

Abstract: In a structural member with large unidirectional rigidities unidirectional fiber bundles are completely embedded in shear resistant sheaths. The shear resistant sheaths are joined to a shear resistant torsion shell made up of skin layers by shear resistant vertical walls. A part of the vertical walls is shaped into stringers. Dividing layers (20) interrupting the passage of tension between adjacent unidirectional fiber bundles (30) are provided between the shear resistant sheaths (31) of the unidirectional fiber bundles (30).

Abstract: Disclosed is a method selective of vapor phase etching for fabricating a semiconductor device having a refractory metal silicide electrode abutting a silicon oxide film on the surface or a semiconductor device having an AlGaAs layer, an electrode formed on the AlGaAs layer and a silicon oxide film on the surface of the semiconductor device. The method comprises a step of removing a portion of the silicon oxide film by a gas including a vapor of hydrogen fluoride. The method further uses a mixture of nitrogen gas including vapor of anhydrous hydrofluoric acid and a nitrogen gas including a vapor of H.sub.2 O, wherein the ratio of the nitrogen gas including the vaporized anhydrous hydrofluoric acid to the nitrogen gas including vapor of H.sub.2 O is less than 1.

Abstract: Methods for preparing an ink concentrate are disclosed. To prepare the ink concentrate, a varnish that includes at least one dispersing polymer is added to the pigment particles, such as an aqueous slurry or an organic-solvent-treated aqueous slurry of the pigment particles. The blend of varnish and pigment particles then is heated to a temperature effective to melt the dispersing polymer. Upon cooling, the dispersing polymer solidifies at the surface of the pigment particles to thereby physically attach and bond to and preferably encapsulate the pigment particles and form an ink concentrate. The ink concentrate thus formed will have improved color properties as compared to conventional ink concentrates.

Abstract: A surface of a diamond, particularly a diamond window, is treated by depositing a layer of a carbide-forming metal such as titanium, on the surface and thereafter removing the layer. The treatment has the effect of passivating stress surface defects in the diamond such as grain boundaries, twin defects and polishing damage.