Abstract: A vehicle support member that is die-cast includes a fixing portion configured to fix a device arranged in a power unit room, and a fixing-portion connecting rib connecting the fixing portion and an outer peripheral wall supported on a pair of front side members constituting a vehicle body and located on an outer side of the power unit room in a width direction of a vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle support member that is die-cast includes a fixing portion configured to fix a device arranged in a power unit room, and a fixing-portion connecting rib connecting the fixing portion and an outer peripheral wall supported on a pair of front side members constituting a vehicle body and located on an outer side of the power unit room in a width direction of a vehicle.

Abstract: A flavor-tasting article including a flavor-generating medium, and a heating source disposed physically separated from the flavor-generating medium to heat the flavor-generating medium to release a flavoring component therefrom. The flavor-generating medium includes a flavoring component-holding material formed of a heat-irreversibly gelled, heat-irreversibly coagulating glucan and a flavoring component held in the holding material. The flavor-generating material releases a sufficient amount of the flavoring component only through heating.

Abstract: A smoking article has a flavor-generating material as a burnable smoking element. The flavor-generating material includes a flavoring component-holding material formed of a heat-irreversibly gelled glucan and a flavoring component held in the holding material, and is obtained by thermally gelling a mixture of ungelled glucan and the flavoring component added thereto. Since the flavoring component is firmly fixed and held within the three-dimensional network structure of the gelled glucan, the storage properties and release-durability of the flavoring component are improved.

Abstract: A process for reducing an aldehyde or ketone in the presence of a stable, highly active catalyst which is insoluble in a solvent and which can be recovered easily from the reaction system after completion of the reaction and used repeatedly, characterized in that an aldehyde or ketone having a carbonyl group is reacted with an alcohol in the presence of hydrous zirconium oxide as the catalyst.

Abstract: A carbon monoxide oxidizing catalyst for removing carbon monoxide from an air comprises a porous carrier, and on said carrier, a palladium salt and a copper salt as main active components and a vanadium compound or a vanadium compound and a phosphorous compound as a promotor.