Abstract: In an adsorption-type refrigerating apparatus, an adsorber includes therein an adsorbent having a temperature-dependent characteristic in which an amount adsorbed in an adsorption step is larger than an amount adsorbed in a desorption step, even when a vapor pressure rate in the adsorption step is equal to or lower than a vapor pressure rate in the desorption step. Therefore, even when the cooling temperature of outside air for cooling the adsorbent increases, a sufficient cooling capacity can be obtained. In addition, a difference between the amount adsorbed in the adsorption step and the amount adsorbed in the desorption step can be made larger.

Abstract: Porous materials having a metal oxide skeleton are taught that have various water vapor adsorption capacities defined by the amount of adsorbed water vapor at a specific relative vapor pressure in a water vapor adsorption isotherm. A preferred porous material has a water vapor adsorption capacity that is less than or equal to 0.1 g/g at a relative vapor pressure of 10%, and greater than or equal to 0.2 g/g at a relative vapor pressure of 28%. Methods of making such porous materials are also taught. A preferred method for forming a porous material includes condensing a skeleton starting material for the porous material, in the presence of a surfactant, in a solution which has a concentration of the skeleton starting material in the solution that is less than or equal to 0.4 mol/L and a molar ratio of the surfactant to the skeleton starting material that is greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 50, to form a condensate and removing the surfactant from the condensate.

Abstract: In an adsorption-type refrigerating apparatus, an adsorber includes therein an adsorbent having a temperature-dependent characteristic in which an amount adsorbed in an adsorption step is larger than an amount adsorbed in a desorption step, even when a vapor pressure rate in the adsorption step is equal to or lower than a vapor pressure rate in the desorption step. Therefore, even when the cooling temperature of outside air for cooling the adsorbent increases, a sufficient cooling capacity can be obtained. In addition, a difference between the amount adsorbed in the adsorption step and the amount adsorbed in the desorption step can be made larger.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inorganic-organic hybrid material having both the characteristics of the inorganic material and the characteristics of the organic material. The material has a lamellar structure formed by piling a sheet of silicon tetrahedrons upon a sheet of titanium octahedrons. In this lamellar structure, an organic group is bonded to a center atom of a tetrahedron via a covalent bond. The organic group can be polymerized to make the organic phyllotitanosilicate a tough and hard coating material. The hybrid material of the present invention thus has both the characteristics, such as high hardness and heat resistance, of the constitutive inorganic material and the characteristics, such as flexibility and filmability at room temperature, of the constitutive organic material, and further has an excellent UV-blocking property.

Abstract: A herapathite has a capillary crystal form in which its iodine atoms are oriented in a major axis direction of the capillary crystal form. The herapathite obtained is expressed by a chemical formula, xC.sub.20 H.sub.24 N.sub.2 O.sub.2.yH.sub.2 SO.sub.4.zHI.sub.3, in which a ratio of a number of the sulfuric acid molecules (y) with respect to a number of the iodine atoms (3z), i.e., (y/3z), is less than 0.5. The production process includes a reaction step, a first separating step, a recrystallizing step and a second separating step. A solvent used in the recrystallizing step is at least one of water and alcohol. A mixing weight ratio of water with respect to alcohol of the solvent is more than 50/50 or less than 10/90. The herapathite does not degrade even after it is heated up to 130.degree. C., and it is applicable to an automobile light shielding glass which should show a high transparency when a voltage is applied thereto.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a polyimide composite material which comprises a polyimide-containing resin and a layered clay mineral which is intercalated with organic onium ions and dispersed in the polyimide. Owing to the intercalated clay mineral, the composite material has improved gas and water vapor barrier properties and a small thermal expansion coefficient. Disclosed also herein is a process for producing a polyimide composite material which comprises the steps of intercalating a layered clay mineral with organic onium ions, adding by mixing the intercalated clay mineral to a solution of a monomer or prepolymer for polyimide, removing the solvent, and forming a polyimide. This process makes the layered clay mineral miscible with and dispersible in polyimide.

Abstract: A transparent polyester-ester amide having a permanently antistatic property is obtained by copolymerizing (a) an aminocarboxylic acid, a lactam, or a salt derived from a diamine and a dicarboxylic acid; (b) a diol of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are an ethylene oxide or propylene oxide group, Y is covalent bond, alkylene, alkylidene, cycloalkylidene, arylalkylidene, O, SO, SO.sub.2, CO, S, CF.sub.2, C(CF.sub.3).sub.2 or NH, X is H, alkyl, halogen, sulfonic acid or salt thereof, l is 0 or an integer of 1-4, and m and n an integer of 1-15; (c) a poly(alkylene oxide)glycol or a diol of the formula:HO--R.sup.3 --OH (IV)wherein R.sup.3 is alkylene, alkylidene, cycloalkylidene or arylalkylidene; and (d) a dicarboxylic acid; wherein the content of the polyether-ester units is 10 to 90 wt. %.

Abstract: Disclosed is a resin composition comprising (A) from 1-98 wt. parts of a graft copolymer obtained by graft-polymerizing (a) 5-80 wt. % of a rubbery polymer and (b) 95-20 wt. % of a monomer mixture consisting of 40-90 wt. % of an aromatic vinyl compound, 60-10 wt. % of a vinyl cyanide compound and 0-50 wt. % of another ethylenically unsaturated compound copolymerizable therewith, (B) 1-40 wt. % parts of a modified copolymer selected from (B.sub.1) a modified vinyl copolymer obtained by polymerizing (a) 40-90 wt. % of an aromatic vinyl compound, (b) 60-10 wt. % of a vinyl cyanide compound, (c) 0.01-10 wt. % of a monomer having an epoxy, carboxyl or amino group, and (d) 0-40 wt. % of another ethylenically unsaturated compound, and (B.sub.2) a modified olefinic copolymer obtaind by copolymerizing (e) 50-95 wt. % of ethylene or propylene, (f) 0.1-20 wt. % of a monomer having an epoxy, carboxyl or amino group, and (g) 0-40 wt. % of another ethylenically unsaturated compound, (C) 1-60 wt.