Abstract: A pilot type solenoid valve includes a pilot valve unit and a passage block unit. The passage block unit has a rectangular parallelepiped shape including a pair of wide opposite surfaces, and four side surfaces surrounding the wide opposite surfaces. The four side surfaces include a first surface on which the pilot valve unit is attached, and a second surface formed with at least either an input port or an output port. A valve element is a diaphragm valve and arranged in parallel to the pair of wide opposite surfaces. The passage block unit includes a block body forming a valve chamber around a valve seat, and a flat cover. The flat cover includes a recess forming the back chamber of the diaphragm valve, and the flat cover has a flat cover communication path formed to provide communication between the recess and a common path of the pilot valve unit.

Abstract: A pilot type solenoid valve includes a pilot valve unit and a passage block unit. The passage block unit has a rectangular parallelepiped shape including a pair of wide opposite surfaces, and four side surfaces surrounding the wide opposite surfaces. The four side surfaces include a first surface on which the pilot valve unit is attached, and a second surface formed with at least either an input port or an output port. A valve element is a diaphragm valve and arranged in parallel to the pair of wide opposite surfaces. The passage block unit includes a block body forming a valve chamber around a valve seat, and a flat cover. The flat cover includes a recess forming the back chamber of the diaphragm valve, and the flat cover has a flat cover communication path formed to provide communication between the recess and a common path of the pilot valve unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing metal oxide comprising (a) a water vapor generator for generating a water-vapor containing gas with a desired partial pressure of water vapor; and (b) heating equipment for heating a metal salt of a carboxylic acid, the metal salt of the carboxylic acid being disposed in a sample vessel, to a predetermined temperature in a water-vapor-containing gas which is introduced from said water vapor generator.

Abstract: Metal oxide is produced by heating a metal salt of a carboxylic acid to a predetermined temperature, which varies with a raw material, lower than 300° C. In the case of using zinc acetate as the raw material, when heated in dry helium gas, it is sublimated and decomposed to produce no zinc oxide. In contrast, when heated in a mixture gas of nitrogen gas and water vapor with a programming rate of 5° C./min, the weight loss begins around 110° C. and has been completed around 230° C., at a water vapor partial pressure of 17.9 kPa, to produce zinc oxide. If keeping the temperature approximately constant when the weight loss begins, zinc oxide is produced around 115° C. with a high degree of crystallinity. A metal may be any one of zinc, cadmium, indium and copper. A carboxylic acid may be any one of formic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid and 2-ethylhexanoic acid.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a laminated film by forming an aluminum film and a titanium film in this order on P-type and N-type electrically conductive regions of a silicon substrate and forming a silicide layer containing a titanium silicide as a major component on the electrically conductive region by allowing the laminated film to react with silicon constituting the silicon substrate by a first heat treatment.

Abstract: A connector for connecting a column with two beams in a building unit constructed with a plurality of columns and beams connected to each other comprises a core portion having the same sectional shape as the column and a branch portion having a web and parallel flanges enclosing the web in a right angles state, so that two surfaces of said core portion relate to the web and flanges in a state contacting to each other at right angles.

Abstract: A module for a modular building structure comprises a frame including a horizontal base member of a rectangular shape and four vertical corner posts of the same length secured at their lower ends to the four corners of the base member. A first wall member is attached to two adjacent ones of the four corner posts. A second wall member is attached to one of the two adjacent corner posts and the corner post disposed in diagonal relation to the other of the two adjacent corner posts.

Abstract: In the emulsion polymerization of an .alpha.-alkylstyrene and an unsaturated nitrile copolymerizable therewith in a weight proportion of 70:30 to 80:20 in the presence of a radical initiator, an improved process wherein the monomers are introduced into the reaction system in such a manner that the concentration of the unreacted unsaturated nitrile in the reaction system is not less than 31% by weight to the entire amount of the unreacted monomers in the reaction system at the completion of the introduction of the monomers, whereby a copolymer of the .alpha.-alkylstyrene and the unsaturated nitrile having an excellent thermal resistance is produced with marked decrease in the amount of unreacted monomers.

Abstract: A process for preparing a thermoplastic resin having high heat resistance by emulsion polymerization of an .alpha.-alkylstyrene compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl or halo(C.sub.1 -C.sub.3)alkyl and an unsaturated nitrile in a weight proportion of 65:35 to 80:20 in the presence of a radical initiator, characterized in that the whole amount of the .alpha.-alkylstyrene compound and 10 to 99% by weight of the unsaturated nitrile on the basis of its total amount are first subjected to polymerization and, after the polymerization, the remaining portion of the unsaturated nitrile is added to the reaction mixture and the resultant mixture is subjected to further polymerization until the polymerization is substantially completed.

Abstract: A process for preparing a thermoplastic resin having excellent heat resistance, impact resistance and processability, which comprises emulsion polymerization of a mixture comprising a monomeric mixture consisting essentially of an .alpha.-alkylstyrene, methyl methacrylate and an unsaturated nitrile and a diene rubber latex containing particles of 400 to 900 A in particle size in an amount of not less than 30% by weight in the presence of a radical initiator, the weight proportion of the monomeric mixture and the diene rubber latex (solids) being from 60:40 to 95:5.