Abstract: An ignition timing control device for an internal combustion engine incorporating exhaust gas recirculation and vacuum advancing of ignition timing, the device including a check valve which holds the largest vacuum which appears in the vacuum port during opening process of the intake throttle valve for the vacuum advancer and a delay means which delays transmission of the largest vacuum to the vacuum advancer.

Abstract: Mono- and di-thiophosphate esters having an isoxazolinone system attached at its 2-position through an optionally alkyl- or phenyl-substituted methylene or ethylene group to the sulphur or to one of the sulphur atoms are useful as insecticides and/or acaricides.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating evaporated fuel gas from a fuel tank of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine. The fuel treating apparatus includes a means for sensing the amount of fuel gas vapors in the fuel tank, a means for drawing the fuel vapors into the intake of the engine and a means for varying the air/fuel ratio in the intake of the engine in response to the amount of fuel gas vapors sensed in the fuel tank by the sensing means whereby a rich air/fuel mixture in the intake of the engine is prevented.

Abstract: Isoxazolone derivatives having the formula ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a halogen atom; Y is hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or phenyl group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different and each represents a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkoxycarbonylalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a phenyl group which may be substituted with one to three substituents or an aralkyl group which may be substituted with one to three substituents in the aryl moiety. They are useful as plant growth regulators, more specifically herbicides and plant growth retardants, and prepared by reacting the corresponding N-halogenocarbonylisoxazolone with an amine or by reacting the corresponding 3-hydroxyisoxazole with a carbamoyl halide.

Abstract: Isoxazolone derivatives having the formula ##STR1## wherein X is hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or a halogen atom; Y is hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group or phenyl group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different and each represents a lower alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkeyl group, an alkoxycarbonylalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a phenyl group which may be substituted with one to three substituents or an aralkyl group which may be substituted with one to three substituents in the aryl moiety. They are useful as plant growth regulators, more specifically herbicides and plant growth retardants, and prepared by reacting the corresponding N-halogenocarbonylisoxazolone with an amine or by reacting the corresponding 3-hydroxyisoxazole with a carbamoyl halide.