Abstract: The present invention provides a urinalysis apparatus easy to maintain and manage without using any supplies such as the test paper, in which the concentration of an optically active substance in urine is determined by measuring the angle of rotation of the urine. Also, a polarimeter and a urinalysis apparatus which are reliable, compact and inexpensive are provided by using a polarimeter including means for transmitting the polarized light through a specimen, applying a magnetic field to the specimen and detecting the change in the direction of light polarization due to the application of the magnetic field.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring method most suitable for measuring the concentrations of specific constituents, especially urine protein level and sugar level. After a protein-contained liquid sample is opacified by heating or while the sample is being heated, a light is projected to the liquid sample. The concentration of protein is determined from the intensity of light transmitted through the sample or scattered from the sample. In a urinalysis, an angle of rotation of the sample is measured before the sample is opacified, and in addition, intensity of the transmitted light or scattered light of the opacified urine is measured, whereby the urine sugar and protein levels are obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a urinalysis apparatus easy to maintain and manage without using any supplies such as the test paper, in which the concentration of an optically active substance in urine is determined by measuring the angle of rotation of the urine. Also, a polarimeter and a urinalysis apparatus which are reliable, compact and inexpensive are provided by using a polarimeter including means for transmitting the polarized light through a specimen, applying a magnetic field to the specimen and detecting the change in the direction of light polarization due to the application of the magnetic field.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measuring method most suitable for measuring the concentrations of specific constituents, especially urine protein level and sugar level. After a protein-contained liquid sample is opacified by heating or while the sample is being heated, a light is projected to the liquid sample. The concentration of protein is determined from the intensity of light transmitted through the sample or scattered from the sample. In a urinalysis, an angle of rotation of the sample is measured before the sample is opacified, and in addition, intensity of the transmitted light or scattered light of the opacified urine is measured, whereby the urine sugar and protein levels are obtained.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electronic device having a substrate and a pair of electrodes facing each other, including the steps of forming a polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film on a substrate, and contacting an oligothiophene compound with the polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film to form an organic oriented film on the polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film between the pair of electrodes wherein the long axis of oligothiophene molecules is oriented to the orientation of the polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film and crystallized.

Abstract: A refrigeration system includes an outdoor unit having a refrigeration compressor and a heat exchanger, and an indoor unit having a heat exchanger to be placed where air conditioning is desired. In installing the refrigeration system, the outdoor unit is first connected with the indoor unit via pipe lines, and an air absorbing device containing zeolite as an adsorbent is subsequently placed on the outdoor unit, the indoor unit, or the pipe lines to remove air. The air absorbing device is then separated from the refrigeration system, and refrigerant is caused to circulate through the refrigeration system.

Abstract: A method for constructing a refrigerating cycle that has a unit having a refrigerating compressor which is filled with a part or all of a quantity of working medium beforehand and a heat exchanger, and a unit having a heat exchanger that is located in an area of air conditioning and refrigeration, wherein the units are connected with each other by piping, uses such steps of: connecting the unit having the refrigerating compressor and heat exchanger with the unit having the heat exchanger that is located in an area of air conditioning and refrigeration by means of piping; removing oxygen in a system of the refrigerating cycle by providing an oxygen absorbent in a course of a refrigerant circulating path; separating the oxygen absorbent from the refrigerating cycle; and circulating a refrigerant in the refrigerating cycle, wherein the separating step is carried out immediately after or after the removing step, and the refrigerant circulating step is a final step.

Abstract: There are disclosed a thermal insulating foamed material, which is superior in thermal insulating property and does not cause deterioration of the thermal insulating property with a time lapse, and a method for producing the same. According to a method for producing a thermal insulating foamed material, a foamed polyurethane resin composition having closed cells, in which at least carbon dioxide is filled, is formed by blowing a raw material mixture containing epoxides comprising at least two members of an epoxide compound having high reactivity with carbon dioxide and an epoxide compound having low reactivity with carbon dioxide, a carbon dioxide fixation catalyst, polyisocyanate, a reactive blowing agent which evolves carbon dioxide by reacting with said polyisocyanate, and a polyol composition. Then, the carbon dioxide in the closed cells is allowed to react with the epoxides in the presence of the carbon dioxide fixation catalyst, thereby to fix carbon dioxide as carbonate compounds.

Abstract: A refrigeration system includes an outdoor unit having a refrigeration compressor and a heat exchanger, and an indoor unit having a heat exchanger to be placed where air conditioning is desired. In installing the refrigeration system, the outdoor unit is first connected with the indoor unit via pipe lines, and an air absorbing device containing zeolite as an adsorbent is subsequently placed on the outdoor unit, the indoor unit, or the pipe lines to remove air. The air absorbing device is then separated from the refrigeration system, and refrigerant is caused to circulate through the refrigeration system.

Abstract: A hologram recording device, which comprises a recording layer of a polymer composition a photoconductive element, a second-order super-polarization element and an electron or hole capturing material and having a non-centro symmetric structure is disclosed. Transparent electrode layers are provided on each side of the recording layer. The hologram recording device is capable of space light modulation and real time hologram recording. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing the hologram recording device and a method of hologram recording using the device. The hologram recording material is of a polymer composition a photoconductive element, a second-order super-polarization element and an electron or hole capturing element. The polymer composition has a non-centro symmetric structure. The hologram recording device according to the invention comprises a recording layer of a polymer composition including a photoconductive element and a second-order super-polarization element.

Abstract: A conductive layered product is made by adhering an oligothiophene compound to the surface of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), wherein the surface of said PTFE is oriented by an orientation treatment, and wherein the molecular chains of said oligothiophene compound are oriented and crystallized in the orientation direction of the PTFE, thus improving the orientation of the oligothiophene compound of a low molecular conductive material by a simple method. The oligothophene compound adhered to the PTFE oriented film is oriented and crystallized. A gaseous-phase method and a casting method are acceptable methods for adhering the compound. It is preferable to use oligothiophene compounds with 4-6 polymerization degrees. The oligothiophene compound, in which the .alpha. position at the end of molecular chains is replaced with an alkyl group, can also be used.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic electronic device having a substrate and a pair of electrodes facing each other, including the steps of forming a polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film on a substrate, and contacting an oligothiophene compound with the polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film to form an organic oriented film on the polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film between the pair of electrodes wherein the long axis of oligothiophene molecules is oriented to the orientation of the polytetrafluoroethylene oriented film and crystallized.

Abstract: The invention relates to a non-linear optical material comprising a salt of an organic compound with an optically active organic acid, wherein said organic compound has a conjugated .pi. electron system containing both electron donor and acceptor groups and has at least one substituent group represented by the following formulas (1), (2) and (3) which is located outside of said conjugated .pi. electron system. The invention also concerns a method of manufacturing the optical material and an optical converter which uses the non-linear optical material. ##STR1## According to the invention, a second-order non-linear optical material, which is readily capable of crystal growth, permits a large crystal to be readily obtained, and ensures high hardness of the crystal and gives excellent processibility and non-linear optical characteristics.

Abstract: A laser device including a wavelength converter of internal resonator type comprises a laser diode 20 for excitation, a light emission section 22 as a solid laser medium excited by the laser 20 and a wavelength converter 23 for converting the wavelength of the laser light from the excited solid laser. The solid laser medium of the light emission section 22 comprises a semiconductor crystal of GaAs, AlGaAs or GaAs-AlGaAs. A second harmonic wave light of a fundamental wave of 0.8 .mu.m band can be easily generated by using a solid laser medium such as a GaAs crystal, an AlGaAs crystal or a superlattice crystal thereof.

Abstract: A laser apparatus includes a semiconductor laser, an optical resonater and a wavelength converter made of a nonlinear optical material. The nonlinear optical material has at least one of aromatic ring and metal ion, and wherein at least one element selected from the group consisting of ion bonding hydrogen, hydrogen bonding hydrogen and hydrogen of water of crystallization is replaced with deuterium. The nonlinear optical material is formed by removing water of crystallization from an organic ionic crystal containing at least one of aromatic ring and metal ion, and recrystallizing with a solvent comprising at least one of ionic bonding deuterium, hydrogen bonding deuterium, and heavy water.

Abstract: Highly electrically conductive and stable macrocyclic poly-conjugated systems are provided from a preferred polymer comprising a repetition of cyclic structures each represented by Formula (1): ##STR1## X and Y each are at least one group selected from the group consisting of a C--C unsaturated bonding group, a C--N unsaturated bonding group, an N--N unsaturated bonding group, an Si--Si bonding group and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aromatic ring, a heterocyclic ring and their derivatives. .alpha., .beta., .gamma., and .delta., when they do not form a closed ring with X, are each at least one group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1-5 lower alkyl group, an --NH.sub.2 group, and an --NR.sub.2 group in which R is a C.sub.1-5 lower alkyl group. When .alpha., .beta., .gamma., and .delta. form a closed ring with X, (.alpha. and .beta.) or (.gamma. and .delta.) together jointly represent ##STR2## in which R is a C.sub.1-5 lower alkyl group.

Abstract: The invention provides a nonlinear optical material comprising a compound represented by the general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 denotes an electron attractive group, R.sup.2 denotes a group selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, methyl group, methoxy group and electron attractive group, R.sup.3 denotes a straight-chain alkylene group, and X denotes an oxygen or sulfur atom. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a nonlinear optical material comprising the steps of dissolving a compound represented by the general formula (1) in an organic solvent, and evaporating the solvent while keeping its temperature constant or lowering its temperature, thereby growing a crystal of the compound represented by the general formula (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a non-linear optical material comprising a salt of an organic compound with an optically active organic acid, wherein said organic compound has a conjugated .pi. electron system containing both electron donor and acceptor groups and has at least one substituent group represented by the following formulas (1), (2) and (3) which is located outside of said conjugated .pi. electron system. The invention also concerns a method of manufacturing the optical material and an optical converter which uses the non-linear optical material. ##STR1## According to the invention, a second-order non-linear optical material, which is readily capable of crystal growth, permits a large crystal to be readily obtained, and ensures high hardness of the crystal and gives excellent processibility and non-linear optical characteristics.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a polyacetylene.In the present process for producing a polyacetylene, acetylene is polymerized with a Ziegler-Natta catalyst consisting of a trialkylaluminum and an alkyl titanate, wherein there is used, as the trialkylaluminum, a trialkylaluminum having an alkyl group of 6 or more carbon atoms, or, as the alkyl titanate, an alkyl titanate having an alkyl group of 6 or more carbon atoms.The polyacetylene obtained according to the present invention is superior in mechanical properties, particularly stretchability.

Abstract: A nonlinear optical device is provided which uses nonlinear optical materials that transmit a fundamental wave and generated higher harmonics, and have optical absorption maximums based on an electronic transition between wavelengths of the fundamental wave and the generated higher harmonics. Therefore, by emitting higher harmonics having a wavelength within an optical transmission region between wavelengths of the two optical absorption maximums, materials can be used which have a long wavelength at their absorption edge and a large .beta. value which have been considered unsuitable in the prior art. As a result, a device with high conversion efficiency can be realized.