Abstract: A steam conditioning system including a steam conditioning valve 1 for depressurizing and desuperheating steam S by supplying moisture W in the conditioning valve. A discharge pipe 3 connected to the steam conditioning valve 1 has a horizontal section 3a, and the horizontal arrangement section 3a is provided with a moisture drain 4 or at a portion near the bottom. Condensed moisture W1 is extracted from this moisture drain 4 and is recycled as moisture W to be supplied to the steam S in the conditioning valve 1. The steam conditioning valve 1 further has a reduced annular section 9 with a nozzle 5a disposed therein for injecting subcooled water mist W. A transport conduit 5 connects the drain 4 to nozzle 5a. Moisture W is drawn into steam flow S due to the Venturi effect caused by the pressure drop through the reduced annular section 9.

Abstract: A steam pressure reducing and conditioning valve for passing a superheated steam S inflowing from a first port 1 through a pressure reducing section 2, and, supplying subcooled water mist W and discharging desuperheated and depressurized steam S2 from a second port 3, wherein a first nozzle 4 for supplying mist W is provided in proximity to the pressure reducing section 2. The nozzle 4 injects subcooled water mist in a planar pattern r perpendicular to the flow of depressurized steam S1. Said first nozzle 4 is disposed such that there is a predetermined distance L between the jet pattern r of moisture W injected from the nozzle and the pressure reducing section 2.

Abstract: An analysis of a circuit to be analyzed is made in correspondence with the name of each element which includes a cell configuring the circuit to be analyzed, and the meaning or the relationship of a signal to a terminal of each element, and a determination of whether or not a path from a starting point to an end point is a multi-cycle path is made by using a result of the analysis, thereby providing an analyzing method that can also cope with the use of a gated clock, and an increase in the scale of a circuit, has a short processing time, and can accurately detect a multi-cycle path.

Abstract: A steam pressure reducing and conditioning valve comprising a first port 21 for inflowing superheated steam S, a body 23 having a cylindrical diffuser with bottom 22 where small holes 22a are scattered on the side, and a second port 24 for discharging depressurized steam S1 by the diffuser and supplying moisture W from one or more nozzles 35 to the depressurized steam S1, wherein a protrusion 26 projects inward in a vapor discharge path 29 of the body 23 between the diffuser 22 and the moisture supply section 25, and it is so structured that the depressurized steam S1 exiting from the small hole 22a is concentrated into the body 23 by this protrusion 26, made to pass inside the protrusion 26, increasing the velocity of steam S1, and then desuperheated by supplying the steam S1 with subcooled water W.

Abstract: A steam pressure reducing and conditioning valve for passing a superheated steam S inflowing from a first port 1 through a pressure reducing section 2, and, supplying subcooled water mist W and discharging desuperheated and depressurized steam S2 from a second port 3, wherein a first nozzle 4 for supplying mist W is provided in proximity to said pressure reducing section 2. Said nozzle 4 injects subcooled water mist in a planar pattern r perpendicular to the flow of depressurized steam S1. Said first nozzle 4 is disposed such that there is a predetermined distance L between the jet pattern r of moisture W injected from the nozzle and said pressure reducing section 2.

Abstract: A steam conditioning system comprising a steam conditioning valve 1 for depressurizing and desuperheating steam S by supplying moisture W in said conditioning valve. A discharge pipe 3 connected to the steam conditioning valve 1 has a horizontal section 3a, and said horizontal arrangement section 3a is provided with a moisture drain 4 or at a portion near the bottom. Condensed moisture W1 is extracted from this moisture drain 4 and is recycled as moisture W to be supplied to the steam S in said conditioning valve 1. The steam conditioning valve 1 further has a reduced annular section 9 with a nozzle 5a disposed therein for injecting subcooled water mist W. A transport conduit 5 connects the drain 4 to nozzle 5a. Moisture W is drawn into steam flow S due to the Venturi effect caused by the pressure drop through the reduced annular section 9.

Abstract: A steam pressure reducing and conditioning valve comprising a first port 21 for inflowing superheated steam S1, a body 23 having a cylindrical diffuser with bottom 22 where small holes 22a are scattered on the side, and a second port 24 for discharging depressurized steam S1 by said diffuser and supplying moisture W from one or more nozzles 35 to the depressurized steam S1, wherein a protrusion 26 projects inward in a vapor discharge path 29 of said body 23 between the diffuser 22 and the moisture supply section 25, and it is so structured that the depressurized steam S1 exiting from said small hole 22a is concentrated into the body 23 by this protrusion 26, made to pass inside said protrusion 26, increasing the velocity of steam S1, and then desuperheated by supplying the steam S1 with subcooled water W.

Abstract: A separator for battery which exhibits a low electrical resistivity at normal time, good SD characteristics and a high mechanical strength is disclosed. A high molecular weight polypropylene having a weight average molecular weight of 500,000 or more and a polyethylene having a melting point of from 100.degree. to 140.degree. C. are extruded through a T-die film-forming machine to prepare a laminate film comprising a laminate of the high molecular polypropylene layer and the polyethylene layer. The laminate film is stretched at a temperature as low as from -20.degree. C. to 80.degree. C. by 10% to 100% based on the length of the original film, stretched at a temperature as high as 80.degree. C. to 130.degree. C. by 60% to 300% based on the length of the unstretched film, and then shrunk at the same temperature by 5% to 30% based on the length of the stretched film to render the film porous. Thus, a porous laminate film having a Gurley value of from 200 to 1,500 is prepared as a separator for battery.

Abstract: A porous film of a laminate structure, comprising a porous inner layer comprising polyethylene as the essential component, and having formed on both surfaces thereof a porous outer layer comprising polypropylene and having a Vickers hardness of 10 or more. The porous film is suitable as a separator for a lithium battery, and when the porous film is superposed with a positive electrode and a negative electrode, the film is difficult to be scratched and perforated at the assembly of cells. A production method of the porous film is also provided.

Abstract: This invention relates to a conducting organic polymer formed by doping an organic polymer with a protonic acid having a dissociation constant value pKa of less than 4.8, wherein the organic polymer has, as the main repeating unit, a compound represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein, m and n, respectively, show the molar fraction of the quinonediimine structural unit and phenylenediamine structural unit in the repeating unit, and 0<m<1, 0<n<1, and m+n=1; and the organic polymer is soluble in an organic solvent in the undoped state, and has an intrinsic viscosity ?.eta.! of more than 0.4 dl/g measured in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone at 30.degree. C. This invention also relates to a film formed of the conducting organic polymer and a conducting organic polymer composition.

Abstract: A porous film, a process for producing the same, a battery separator comprising the porous film, and a battery having incorporated therein the separator are disclosed. The porous film comprises a polyethylene and a polypropylene as the essential components, wherein the polyethylene content in the total weight of polyethylene and polypropylene is from 2 to 40% by weight and the polyethylene content is changed in the direction of the thickness of the film, and is produced by forming a laminate film comprising at least one polypropylene layer and at least one layer of a mixture of polyethylene and polypropylene as the essential components, the polyethylene content in the film being from 2 to 40% by weight, uniaxially stretching the laminate film at a low-temperature range of from -20.degree. C. to 80.degree. C. and then stretching the film at a high-temperature range of from 90.degree. C. to 150.degree. C.

Abstract: A porous film comprising a composition of 10 to 90% by weight of polypropylene and 10 to 90% by weight of polyethylene having an Mw/Mn ratio, as determined by high-temperature gel-permeation chromatography, of 10 or less is disclosed. The porous film has a high tensile modulus, a satisfactory appearance, and a uniform thickness. A battery separator comprising the porous film performs a shut-down function (an increase in resistance) in case of a temperature rise due to an abnormal current.

Abstract: This invention relates to an organic polymer having, as the main repeating unit, the compound represented by the general formula: ##STR1## (wherein, m and n respectively show the molar fraction of quinonediimine structure unit and phenylenediamine structure unit in the repeating unit, and 0<m<1, 0<n<1, and m+n=1.), and soluble in an organic solvent in an undoped state, and having the intrinsic viscocity [.eta.] of more than 0.4 dl/g measured in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone at 30.degree. C., and a conducting organic polymer formed by doping a protonic acid to such a polymer.

Abstract: A cell comprising a negative electrode made of metal lithium or a lithium alloy, a positive electrode which comprises polyaniline and has a main peak around 3.0 V versus a lithium electrode and a sub-peak around 3.6 V versus a lithium electrode with a height ratio of the sub-peak to the main peak being not smaller than 0.25 in a discharge capacity distribution curve in the discharge voltage range between 3.8 V and 2.5 V versus a lithium electrode, and a non-aqueous organic electrolytic solution containing a lithium salt dissolved therein, which has long discharge life, high energy density, good charge-discharge cycle characteristics and improve load characteristics.

Abstract: A polyether copolymer comprising the repeating units represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## and the repeating units represented by the following formula (II) ##STR2## the molar ratio of (I)/{(I)+(II)} being from 0.1 to 0.8 and the polyether copolymer having a melt viscosity of at least 500 poise as measured at 400.degree. C. is produced by allowing a dihalogenobenzonitrile, 1,4-bis(4'-halobenzoyl)benzene, and 4,4'-biphenol to react with each other in an aprotic polar solvent in the presence of an alkali metal compound. The polyether copolymer exhibits excellent heat-resistance, solvent resistance, and mechanical strength, and is suitable as a material for resin compositions, heat-resistant laminates, fiber, and film.

Abstract: An apparatus for playing a recording medium on which, in addition to a video format signal and a coded information signal, graphic codes including picture information are recorded as the subcode of the coded information signal. The apparatus is structured to generate, as a reading address data, data which varies sequentially by a predetermined value from a value determined in response to a command, and to write sequentially the graphic codes output from an extracting circuit into a memory and subsequently sequentially read out the graphic codes in the order of address indicated by the reading address data. With this feature, the position of the subcode image can be moved on the picture by the video format signal.

Abstract: A conducting organic polymer battery is disclosed, which comprises a cathode comprising a conducting organic polymer doped with a polymer anion having a number of anionic groups in the molecule thereof, an anode comprising a metal having a redox potential lower than that of the conducting organic polymer, and an electrolyte solution or a solid electrolyte as an ion conductive phase. In the battery, the ion concentration in an electrolyte solution does not substantially change during charging and discharging.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for carrying out the process which causes acceleration of photodegradation of polymer substances. The process comprises irradiating a polymer substance with a low wavelength light and then a high wavelength light in an atmosphere with a specified humidity. The apparatus contains an irradiation lamp for irradiating a polymer substance, a rotating mounting plate for supporting the polymer substance, and humidifying means for creating a predetermined humidity for the photodegradation of the polymer substance. The photodegradation process and apparatus are used to precisely determine the useful life of polymer substances.