Abstract: A pinhole camera in which a conical lens with an apical angle of 91.13° to 91.15° is used to correct the fisheye characteristics, and ⅓-inch fixed charged coupled device and a pinhole with a diameter of 0.8 mm are adopted to obtain clear image of a subject in an range from a point closely adjacent to the camera to a point far from the camera with strong contrast. The pinhole video camera comprising: a printed circuit board to which ⅓-inch fixed coupled charged device is attached; a holder fixed so as to cover a front surface of the coupled charged device of the printed circuit board; a lens holder having a pinhole with a diameter of 0.8 mm; a conical convex lens with an apical angle of 91.13° to 91.15°, the conical convex lens fixed on a rear face side of the pinhole of the lens holder.

Abstract: A process for preparing a 2-carbamoyloxyalkyl-1,4-dihydropyridine derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR1## which comprises: (a) reacting a 3-amino-3-carbamoyloxyalkylacrylic acid derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR2## with a benzylidene compound represented by the general formula: ##STR3## (b) reacting the 3-amino-3-carbamoyloxyalkylacrylic acid derivative of the general formula II with an aldehyde compound represented by the general formula: ##STR4## and a .beta.-keto-ester compound represented by the general formula:R.sup.4 --CO--CH.sub.2 --COOR.sup.2 (V)(c) reacting a 3-carbamoyloxyalkylpropiolic acid derivative represented by the general formula: ##STR5## with the benzylidene compound of the general formula III and ammonia or its salt; or(d) reacting the 3-carbamoyloyalkylpropiolic acid derivative of the general formula VI with the aldehyde compound of the general formula IV, the .beta.-keto-ester compound of the general formula V and ammonia or its salt.

Abstract: A process for producing an extremely low carbon steel in a top- and bottom-blown converter. The process is characterized in top-blowing a mixed gas of oxygen gas and an inert gas onto a molten steel in the top- and bottom-blown converter. The mixed gas is blown through a top-blowing lance at the final decarburization stage, while a gas (selected from a group consisting of an inert gas, oxygen gas and a mixture of oxygen and an inert gas) is bottom-blown into the molten steel in the converter.

Abstract: An .alpha.-tocopheryl 5-substituted picolinate of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group which may have a substituent, a lower alkenyl group, a phenyl(lower alkyl) group, or a phenyl group which may have a substituent, and Q represents a methylene group or an oxygen or sulfur atom, or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof. This compound can be produced by reacting a substituted picolinic acid of the formula ##STR2## wherein R and Q are as defined above, or its reactive derivative with .alpha.-tocopherol of the formula ##STR3## and as required, contacting the resulting compound with a pharmaceuticlly acceptable acid. A pharmaceutical composition comprising said compound as an active ingredient is useful for the treatment of hypertension.

Abstract: Wear of tuyeres for refining a molten iron is prevented by blowing a CO-containing gas having the defined flow amount, oxygen gas flow amount and CO gas concentration as a shrouding gas which surrounds a core refining gas flow containing oxygen gas through tuyeres of concentric pipes. As the shrouding gas for cooling and protecting the tuyeres, use may be made of an exhaust gas discharged and recovered from a converter or a blast furnace by controlling the concentrations of CO and N.sub.2 in the exhaust gas to the specific limitations.

Abstract: Novel compounds having vasodilation and hypotensive effects are represented by the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is halogen, nitro, cyano or lower alkoxy; each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is lower alkyl, lower haloalkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl, aralkyloxyalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, lower alkenoxyalkyl, N,N-di-lower alkylaminoalkyl, N-lower alkyl-N-aralkylaminoalkyl, piperidylalkyl, 4-lower alkyl piperazinylalkyl, norpholinoalkyl or 1-pyrrolidinylalkyl; R.sup.4 is lower alkyl; A is lower alkylene; and R.sup.5 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, cycloalkyl of 3 to 7 carbon atoms, or aryl unsubstituted or substituted by one or two substituents selected from halogen, nitro, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, di-lower alkylamino and cyano.Also disclosed are processes for their preparation.