Abstract: The method of fabricating a quantum device of the invention includes the steps of: forming a quantum dot having side faces on a first insulating layer; forming a second insulating layer which can function as a tunnel film, on at least the side faces of the quantum dot; depositing a non-crystal semiconductor layer on the first insulating layer so as to cover the quantum dot; removing at least a portion of the non-crystal semiconductor layer which is positioned above the quantum dot; single-crystallizing a predetermined portion of the non-crystal semiconductor layer which is in contact with the second insulating layer; and forming a quantum wire which includes the single-crystallized semiconductor portion and the quantum dot, on the first insulating layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the development of a silver halide light-sensitive black and white material, wherein a silver halide light-sensitive material is developed in the presence of at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, an ammonium group or a group which is cleaved under alkaline conditions; L represents a bivalent organic group comprising an alkylene group, an alkenylene group, an ether group, a thioether group, --CO--, --CS-- or --NR-- (wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group) alone or a combination of two or more of them; X represents an amino group, an ammonio group, a hydroxyl group or a heterocyclic group; and n represents 0 or 1.

Abstract: A transport plug for pneumatically transporting solid materials in a transport pipe by the use of a pressurized transport gas and a pneumatic transport method of solid materials employing the transport plug. The transport plug comprises two bodies consisting of a front body and a rear body defining a material storing space for storing solid materials between the two bodies, at least one supplementary body connected to the rear body, and flexible connecting means coupling said three bodies. A supplementary material storing space is defined between the supplementary body and the rear body. Solid materials are fed into the material storing space of the transport plug, transported through the transport pipe together with the transport plug, and received in a collector under gravitational fall.

Abstract: An improvement of a high density pneumatic transport system for pneumatically transporting powdered or granular materials placed in an airtight storage container to a collector through a transport pipe having a vertical riser pipe intermediately thereof by the use of pressurized gas. The transport pipe comprises a lower horizontal pipe being connected to the airtight storage container and having a convergent cylindrical accelerating reducer, an upper horizontal pipe being connected to the collector and having a divergent cylindrical decelerating reducer at its initial end, and a vertical riser pipe which connects the lower horizontal pipe to the upper horizontal pipe. The vertical riser pipe is provided at intermediate thereof up and down with an acceleration regulating reducer having a convergent accelerating portion above its bottom having a constricted portion and a divergent cylindrical decelerating reducer.

Abstract: A high density pneumatic transport system of solid materials from an airtight transport tank through a transport pipe into a collector. In the airtight transport tank materials are successively fed into a charge tank by reciprocating a slide damper. Simultaneously materials stored in the charge tank are successively pushed out into the transport pipe by supplying pressurized gas intermittently and transported continuously at high density through a lower horizontal pipe and a vertical riser pipe, then transported in the form of a long column in an upper horizontal pipe at a very low speed by deceleration by a divergent means, and finally collected into a storage tank of the collector.

Abstract: A reducer and a method for conducting dot etching processing using the reducer, the reducer comprising (1) an amino polycarboxylic acid ferric chelate compound having an oxidation-reduction potential of -100 mV or above, (2) a complexing agent, and (3) at least one member of the compounds represented by the following general formulae (IA) to (VIIA). ##STR1## All symbols are defined in the specification.

Abstract: A process for preparing a carboxyalkyl-substituted hydroxylamine represented by formula (I) ##STR1## where L represents an alkylene group; A represents a hydrogen atom, a sulfo group, a carboxy group, a phosphono group, a trialkylammonio group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, an acyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, or a cyano group; and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group; which comprises: reacting an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylic acid represented by formula (II) as an alkylating agent ##STR2## where R'.sub.1, R'.sub.2, and R'.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represent the same group as defined for R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing a hydroxylamine compound and at a small opened surface ratio of the color developer by using an automatic processor. According to the disclosure, a rapid development excellent in decreasing the fluctuation of photographic properties for a high-silver-chloride silver halide color photographic material can be carried out.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for processing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer and thereafter desilvering, wherein the silver halide color photographic material has a thickness of dried coatings of 15 .mu.m or less and the color developer comprises an anionic surface-active agent and a hydroxylamine compound. According to the disclosure staining in the unexposed part of the photographic material can be remarkably improved even in a continuous processing.

Abstract: An indirectly heated filamentary cathode capable of significantly reducing its resistance, uniformly emitting electrons therefrom and effectively elminating its insulation failure. In the filamentary cathode, a cathode substrate is constituted by a metal conductive layer of a cylindrical shape arranged so as to be contacted with and electrically insulating layer and a fine metal wire wound which are closely contacted together, so that an electron emitting layer may be deposited through the metal conductive layer on the electrically insulating layer.

Abstract: A method and the related system for sampling solid materials. Materials as continuously manufactured from a compression molding machine are sampled at fixed intervals and the materials thus sampled are fed into a transport pipe so as to be transferred by being accompanied by a transport plug into an inspecting station at low speed from its stand-by position in the pipe when a gas control means is set in a feed mode. After transferring sampled materials the transport plug left at its terminal position in the transport pipe is automatically returned to the stand-by position through the transport pipe when the gas control means is set in a suction mode. By executing the above steps repeatedly, sampled materials are successively transferred into the inspecting station by being accompanied by the transport plug under unmanned operation.

Abstract: A toner cartridge with a cartridge body having a toner supply opening, a seal member, having a folded part, for closing the toner supply opening with a portion between the folded part and an end, and a rolling mechanism for rolling up the seal member from the end which is free of the closing of the toner supply opening. Both side ends of the seal member near the rolling mechanism are different in length between the folded part and the rolling mechanism. Another toner cartridge has a plurality of seal members which have different length. The toner cartridges may have a pressing member for pressing the outer surface of the seal member rolled up by the rolling mechanism. These toner cartridges can be applied to a developing unit in a copying machine.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising after development, bleaching or bleach-fixing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material in the presence of at least one compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may combine with each other to form a heterocyclic ring; A.sup.1 and A.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkylene group having from 2 to 5 carbon atoms which may be substituted; and n represents an integer from 2 to 6.In accordance with the method of the present invention, as a result of accelerated bleaching function, the processing time is shortened while sufficient bleaching is performed, thus providing color photographic images of excellent image quality.

Abstract: A method of producing a silver halide photographic emulsion including the step of:reacting a water-soluble silver salt and at least one water-soluble halide salt containing chloride in aqueous solution in the presence of at least one compound represented by formulae (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3 and A.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents a nonmetallic atomic group necessary for forming a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring; B represents a divalent linking group; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group; X represents an anion necessary for charge balance; m is 0 or 1; and n is 0 or 1;to form light-sensitive silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of at least 50 mol %, selected from octahedral grains, tetradecahedral grains and tablular grains, wherein at least 30% of the surface area of said light-sensitive silver halide grains is composed of (111) planes.

Abstract: An image display device capable of uniforming luminance over a whole display plane. The image display device includes a plurality of vertical selecting electrodes each adapted to adjust an intensity of each of electron beams for every one of a plurality of cathodes. The device may include a protective electrode for insulating a low voltage region for selecting and deflecting of each electron beam and a high voltage region for accelerating the electron beam from each other.

Abstract: A method for forming a direct positive color image by image-wise exposing to light a light-sensitive material having at least one internal latent image type silver halide emulsion layer which is unfogged and color image-forming couplers on a support; either (1) subjecting the resulting material to fogging exposure to light and/or processing it with a nucleating agent before development, and then developing the resulting material with a surface developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent, or (2) developing the material after the image-wise exposure with a surface developing solution containing an aromatic primary amine type color developing agent under fogging exposure and/or in the presence of a nucleating agent; and bleach-fixing the resulting material, wherein the color developing solution contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the following general formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## wherein X represent

Abstract: A storage container for storing powdered or granular materials without causing breakage and fragementation thereof includes a storage container body provided with at its upper portion with an a shock absorbing means accommodated therewithin for alleviating the shock of the materials induced thereinto. The shock absorbing means comprises, in a first aspect, a zigzagged shoot includes a plurality of slant plates extended inwardly alternately from its opposed side wall portions, a plurality of outlets formed below said respective slant plates except the lowermost one and a discharge window formed its upper portion. In a second aspect, it comprises a small and a large shock absorbing members configured to a right circular cone with the former being arranged on the upper side of the latter and disposed concentrically below the inlet. The latter has a drop opening formed at it stop portion.

Abstract: An improved method and related system for pneumatically transporting powdered or granular materials stored in an airtight storage container to a collector through a transport pipe in the form of a lengthy column in high density and at a slow speed by the use of pressurized gas. The method of the invention comprises the steps of stopping feeding of the pressurized gas when the whole of the powdered or granular materials corresponding to a final batch contained in the storage container are sent into the material transport pipe, simultaneously discharging the internal pressure of the storage container through a gas decompressing means, inserting a transport plug from the base end of the material transport pipe, and carrying forward the transport plug at a slow speed by feeding pressurized gas from the base end of the transport pipe.

Abstract: An improved and the related system for pneumatically transporting a powder or granular material placed in an airtight storage container through a transport pipe in high density. The material is formed into a long column in a horizontal upper pipe of the transport pipe and is transported at very slow speed and in high density by being performed such operation that the material is first increased and then reduced in speed and again accelerated while being moved up through a vertical riser pipe connected to the horizontal pipe and is once more reduced in speed when the material enters the horizontal upper pipe.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material which comprises the steps of, after color-developing, processing the silver halide color photographic material with a bleaching bath, and then processing with a fixing bath, wherein the bleaching bath has a pH value of from 2.5 to 5.5 and contains a (1,3-diaminopropane-tetraacetato)iron(III) complex salt in an amount of at least 0.2 mol/liter and an organic acid in an amount of at least 0.5 mil/liter, and the fixing bath contains at least one compound selected from formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), and (V):R.sup.1 --(X--R.sup.3).sub.m --X--R.sup.2 (I)wherein m represents 0 or an integer of from 1 to 4; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; R.sup.3 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group, provided that when m is 2 or more, the R.sup.3 groups in each of the (X--R.sup.3) segments may be the same or different; and X represents sulfur, oxygen, ##STR1## wherein Z represents ##STR2## --OR.