Abstract: The present invention is directed to a kit for rendering a glass surface water repellent. This invention is particularly directed to a kit for coating a windshield of a vehicle to render the windshield water repellent.

Abstract: There are provided a substrate processing apparatus and a method of manufacturing a substrate in which induction heating of members made of a metal material and installed outside an induction coil is suppressed and safety may be improved during processing of a substrate. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a reaction tube for accommodating a substrate; an induction heating unit installed to surround an outer circumference of the reaction tube; a shielding unit installed to surround an outside of the induction heating unit; a gas supply unit for supplying at least a source gas into the reaction tube; and a controller for processing the substrate by heating an inside of the reaction tube using the induction heating unit, and supplying at least the source gas from the gas supply unit into the reaction tube.

Abstract: A container for adhesive agent, comprises a container main body having a storage section which stores the adhesive agent capable of dispersing as volatilized gas, and a cap which is attached to the storage section, and an outer covering which covers the container main body, wherein a projection is formed on the container main body so that a spaced section in which the volatized gas of the adhesive agent is kept is formed between an outer surface of the container main body and the outer covering.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member, on which an electrostatic image is formed; a development unit which is provided with a developer bearing member for bearing and conveying a developer, so as to develop the electrostatic image; a storage place which can store therein the developer spattering from the development unit; a shielding member which is disposed in a region outside of a development region in the storage place; and a foreign material collecting member which is disposed in a region farther outside of the shielding member in the storage place.

Abstract: A water-retainable molding is formed by mixing and hardening cement, fiber bundles and fiber masses, and includes first pores inside the fiber bundles, second pores between fiber bundles and a cement gel, third pores inside the fiber masses, fourth pores between the adjacent fiber masses, and fifth pores due to discharge of water content and air inside a platelike block. The first, second and fifth pores are employed as a capillary portion, the third pores are employed as a water-retaining portion, and the fourth pores are employed as a water communicating opening portion. When water is supplied to the surface, the water is absorbed from the fourth pores as well as the first, second and fifth pores, and is retained in the third pores. Furthermore, when the temperature rises, the water content is supplied from the third pores to the surface through the first, second and fifth pores so as to be evaporated and to control the temperature of the molding.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed by imagewise exposure; a rotatable member; a developing device carried on said rotatable member and movable, by rotation of said rotatable member, to a developing position where said developing device is opposed to said image bearing member; a driven gear which is provided in said developing device and which receives a driving force for operating said developing device; and a driving gear, provided in a main assembly of the apparatus, for driving engagement with said driven gear of said developing device which is located at the developing position, wherein said driving gear, when said developing device is moving toward the developing position, is driven such that moving direction thereof is the same as a moving direction of said driven gear at an engagement portion with said driven gear, wherein upon driving engagement between said driven gear and said driving gear, a peripheral speed VA of said driven gear w

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developer container for containing a developer; a first screw, provided in a first screw, provided in a first chamber in the developer container, for feeding the developer; a second screw, provided in a second chamber in the developer container, for feeding the developer in a direction opposite from that of the first screw; an opening through which the developer is moved between the first chamber and the second chamber; and a developer carrying member, provided in the first chamber, for carrying the developer to effect development of an electrostatic image. At least one of said first screw and said second screw has a multiple thread screw portion having a number n of threads and a thread pitch P.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a kit for rendering a glass surface water repellent. This invention is particularly directed to a kit for coating a windshield of a vehicle to render the windshield water repellent.

Abstract: Provided is a heat treatment apparatus. The heat treatment apparatus comprises a process chamber configured to grow silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial films on SiC substrates, a substrate holding tool configured to hold a plurality of substrates in a state where the substrates are vertically arranged and approximately horizontally oriented, so as to hold the substrates in the process chamber, a first reaction gas supply nozzle configured to supply a carbon-containing gas into the process chamber, a second reaction gas supply nozzle configured to supply a silicon-containing gas into the process chamber, a magnetic field generating coil disposed at an outside of the process chamber for electromagnetic induction heating, and a coil supporter configured to support the magnetic field generating coil. An upper end of the second reaction gas supply nozzle is lower than a lower end of the coil supporter configured to support the magnetic field generating coil.

Abstract: To provide an antiseptics, a detergent, an antimicrobial, a deodorizer against nitrogenous odor, an insecticide, a repellent and a bactericide, containing an ozonized surfactant obtained by adding ozone to a surfactant having at least one olefin-based double bond in a hydrophobic group moiety. These are highly safe to the human body and have features and performance that ordinary surfactants do not have.

Abstract: The writing ink composition of the present invention includes: an oil-based component containing a polar solvent and a spinnability imparting agent; and a water-based component containing water, polyhydric alcohol, a thixotropy imparting agent and a pigment, the water-based component being dispersed in the above oil-based component.

Abstract: The present invention includes an image forming unit, a reversing unit configured to reverse the sheet on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit, a reconveyance path which conveys the sheet reversed by the reversing unit to a feeding path for forming an image on the sheet by the image forming unit again, a position detection unit which is provided on the reconveyance path and configured to detect a position of the sheet in a width direction, a skew-feeding correction unit which is provided on the reconveyance path and configured to correct skew-feeding of the sheet, wherein the position detection unit is disposed on the downstream of the skew-feeding correction unit in reconveyance path, wherein the image forming unit corrects the position of the image to be formed on the sheet, which is conveyed through the reconveyance path, based on a signal from the positioning detection unit.

Abstract: An optically active amino acid is useful as food or feed, agrochemicals, chemical products for industrial use, intermediates for synthesis of cosmetics or medicines and the like and is also important as optical resolving agents or chiral building blocks for use in organic synthesis. Thus, the object is to provide an industrially practical method for producing the optically active amino acid simply and at low cost.

Abstract: The ink composition for a writing instrument according to the invention has an aqueous component containing water, a thixotropic agent, a polyhydric alcohol and a pigment, dispersed in an oil component having dyes and non-dye components, wherein the IOB value for all of the dyes in the oil component is no greater than 0.9.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ozonized surfactant which has the same level of bactericidal and deodorizing abilities as that of ozonized olive oil and which can be evenly applied or sprayed onto and can permeate any place or environment (a highly hydrophilic or hydrophobic place or environment). The ozonized surfactant can be obtained by adding ozone to a surfactant having at least one olefin-based double bond in a hydrophobic group moiety.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed by imagewise exposure; a rotatable member; a developing device carried on said rotatable member and movable, by rotation of said rotatable member, to a developing position where said developing device is opposed to said image bearing member; a driven gear which is provided in said developing device and which receives a driving force for operating said developing device; and a driving gear, provided in a main assembly of the apparatus, for driving engagement with said driven gear of said developing device which is located at the developing position, wherein said driving gear, when said developing device is moving toward the developing position, is driven such that moving direction thereof is the same as a moving direction of said driven gear at an engagement portion with said driven gear, wherein upon driving engagement between said driven gear and said driving gear, a peripheral speed VA of said driven gear w

Abstract: [Problems] To provide a method for efficiently separating and collecting an optically active amino acid amide and an optically active amino acid which are highly important substances as intermediates in the production of various industrial chemicals, agricultural chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, from an aqueous solution containing the optically active amino acid amide and the optically active amino acid.

Abstract: A water-retainable molding is formed by mixing and hardening cement, fiber bundles and fiber masses, and includes first pores inside the fiber bundles, second pores between fiber bundles and a cement gel, third pores inside the fiber masses, fourth pores between the adjacent fiber masses, and fifth pores due to discharge of water content and air inside a platelike block. The first, second and fifth pores are employed as a capillary portion, the third pores are employed as a water-retaining portion, and the fourth pores are employed as a water communicating opening portion. When water is supplied to the surface, the water is absorbed from the fourth pores as well as the first, second and fifth pores, and is retained in the third pores. Furthermore, when the temperature rises, the water content is supplied from the third pores to the surface through the first, second and fifth pores so as to be evaporated and to control the temperature of the molding.

Abstract: In a developing apparatus provided with a developer container containing a developer, a rotary member holding the developer container and rotatively moving it relative to a developing position, an opening portion provided in the developer container and through which the developer is supplied or discharged, a valve swingable to open and close the opening portion, and a restricting wall restricting the movement of the valve in an opening direction by contacting with the valve when the valve is in an opened position, an irregularity portion is provided on at least one of the contact surface of the valve with the restricting wall and the contact surface of the restricting wall with the valve.