Abstract: A semiconductor laser device of a new monolithic structure has a long transparent optical waveguide used as a passive cavity directly coupled with an active cavity possessing a gain in the direction of the optical axis of the active cavity on a compound semiconductor substrate. The device is intended to satisfy all four characteristics, which are;(1) stable single longitudinal mode oscillation;(2) narrow spectral linewidth;(3) suppression of wavelength chirping due to current modulation; and(4) low noiseand to be applied as a light source for optical fiber communication, optical information processing or the like.

Abstract: A process for producing an alkanesulfonic acid is described, which comprises causing sulfur dioxide and oxygen to act on a saturated hydrocarbon under illumination with light in a substantially water-free reaction system, wherein photo-sulfoxidation of the saturated hydrocarbon is performed as a reaction mixture in the reaction system is held in contact with sodium sulfite.

Abstract: A process for fluidized catalytic cracking of heavy oils and production of hydrogen is described, comprising contacting steam and heavy oils with fluidized catalyst particles containing reduced iron at high temperatures, wherein a fluidized bed is formed such that the catalyst particles are fed from the bottom and withdrawn from the top of the fluidized bed and the fluidized bed is provided with a means for retarding the mixing rate of the catalyst particles in the vertical direction, to thereby generate a temperature difference between zones of the fluidized bed above and below said means, and use the upper zone for cracking of heavy oils and the lower zone for production of hydrogen. Catalyst particles withdrawn from the fluidized bed may be regenerated and recycled. Thus, light oils and hydrogen can be produced in high yields.

Abstract: An electron gun for a color picture tube comprises opposing cup-shaped electrodes each having a plurality of openings laterally aligned in a row, the electrodes being combined such that the openings face each other to form electron lenses. The openings are formed in flat bottom walls of said electrodes, a width of a bridge portion between adjacent openings is 0.5 to 1.5 times a thickness of the bottom wall of each electrode, and corrective plate electrodes are arranged to oppose bridge portions with a predetermined distance therefrom. The electrodes are combined such that spherical aberration of said electron lenses as a whole can be reduced when one of the electrodes is applied with a voltage which is higher than that applied to the other.

Abstract: An exhaust gas reburning device comprises a first reaction chamber receiving only rich HC and CO containing engine exhaust gases resulting from combustion of a rich air-fuel mixture having an air-fuel ratio lower than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to cause effective oxidation of rich HC and CO in the engine exhaust gases and a second reaction chamber separated from the first reaction chamber and receiving the resultant engine exhaust gases from the first reaction chamber and poor HC and CO containing engine exhaust gases resulting from combustion of a lean air-fuel mixture having an air-fuel ratio higher than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to effect sufficient oxidation of lean HC and CO in the engine exhaust gases of the lean air-fuel mixture and the remaining HC and CO in the resultant engine exhaust gases from the first reaction chamber by heat of the resultant exhaust gases and oxygen in the lean HC and CO engine exhaust gases.