Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes and a header tank. The tubes are arranged in parallel with each other, and fluid flows in the tubes. The header tank is disposed at end portions of the tubes in a longitudinal direction of the tubes and extends in a direction in which the tubes are arranged in parallel with each other to communicate with the tubes. The header tank includes a core plate, a resin tank main body part, and a resiliently-deformable sealing member. The tubes are joined to the core plate. The tank main body part is fixed to the core plate. The core plate includes a receiving part at which the sealing member is disposed. The tank main body part is fixed to the core plate with the sealing member clamped between an end part of the tank main body part on the core plate-side and the receiving part. The receiving part is disposed on a farther side from the tubes in the longitudinal direction of the tubes than the end portions of the tubes in the longitudinal direction of the tubes.

Abstract: The whole of a conductive material layer is formed on a bonding surface of an outer film having flexibility and barrier properties to prepare a composite body in which the conductive material layer is integrated with the outer film. A current collector is located within an application region, and at least a part of an electrode terminal is located outside the application region. A positive electrode active material precursor layer, an electrolyte precursor layer, and a negative electrode active material precursor layer are added to the composite body with plane positions thereof aligned with that of the current collector. These precursor layers are subjected to a crosslinking process. The application regions are applied, and the outer films are bonded, to seal a cell. The crosslinking process may be omitted.

Abstract: The whole of a conductive material layer is formed on a bonding surface of an outer film having flexibility and barrier properties to prepare a composite body in which the conductive material layer is integrated with the outer film. A current collector is located within an application region, and at least a part of an electrode terminal is located outside the application region. A positive electrode active material precursor layer, an electrolyte precursor layer, and a negative electrode active material precursor layer are added to the composite body with plane positions thereof aligned with that of the current collector. These precursor layers are subjected to a crosslinking process. The application regions are applied, and the outer films are bonded, to seal a cell. The crosslinking process may be omitted.

Abstract: This invention relates to a matrix of a solid electrolyte having a microstructure in which a non-reactive polyalkylene glycol is held on a co-crosslinked product produced by chemically co-crosslinking a hyperbranched polymer with a crosslinkable ethylene oxide multicomponent copolymer, such that a lithium salt is dissolved in the matrix. A negative electrode active material layer is a layer obtained by dispersing a negative electrode active material and a conduction aid in a lithium-ion conducting solid electrolyte. A positive electrode active material layer is a layer obtained by dispersing a positive electrode active material and a conduction aid in a lithium-ion conducting solid electrolyte.

Abstract: An inner fin is an offset fin having a wavy cross-section that is perpendicular to an oil flowing direction, and has a louver that is partially cut and bent in a direction parallel with the oil flowing direction. The wavy cross-section is defined by alternately placing first-side convex parts and second-side convex parts. A fin height fh is defined by a distance from the first-side convex part to the second-side convex part in the cross-section. An area surrounded by the inner fin, a tube, and the first-side or second-side convex parts located adjacent with each other on the same side in the cross-section is converted into a corresponding circle having a diameter de. When a relationship of X=de/fh0.3 is defined, the diameter of the corresponding circle and the fin height respectively have dimensions that satisfy a relationship of 0.5?X?1.0.

Abstract: Fumaric acid derivatives and ophthalmic lenses using them are disclosed. More specifically, a fumaric acid derivative having a hydrophilic group and a silicon-containing alkyl group within a molecule, and contact lenses or intraocular lenses using the same are disclosed. The fumaric acid derivatives of the present invention provide, on one hand, superior oxygen permeability by having a silicon-containing alkyl group within the molecular structure, and on the other hand, improved compatibility with other hydrophilic monomers by having a hydrophilic group within the same molecule. When ophthalmic lenses obtained by polymerizing monomer compositions containing the fumaric acid derivative are constructed as, for example, water content lenses, lenses with high oxygen permeability independent from the water content may be obtained, wherein the fumaric acid derivatives is superior in compatibility with the hydrophilic monomer used in combination and allows the combination in various mixing ratios.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes and a tank. The tubes extend in a first direction, and are stacked in a second direction. The tank has a tube insertion plate part, and is arranged at an end portion of the tubes. The tube insertion plate part has tube holes in which the tubes are inserted, and ribs extending in a third direction that is approximately perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The tube hole has end portions in the third direction. The rib are arranged to overlap with the end portion of the tube hole in the second direction, and to provide a deformable part to be deformable in the first direction. The deformable part is located in the tube insertion plate part outside of the ribs in the third direction.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising: a core portion including a plurality of tubes; a pair of header tanks communicating with the tubes; and a pair of inserts arranged substantially parallel to the length of the tubes, and in such a manner as to contact the core portion at the ends of the core portion to transfer the heat from the core portion, and having the ends thereof supported on the header tanks; wherein a stress absorber to absorb the stress generated along the length of each insert is formed in the insert; wherein the stress absorber is formed over each insert from the upstream side to the downstream side in the air flow; and wherein the stress absorber is arranged in such a manner that the most upstream end and the most downstream end thereof in the air flow are not superposed, one on the other, along the direction of air flow.

Abstract: A catalyst which efficiently removes particulate matter, SOF, sulfate, and SOOT and the like from the exhaust gas from such an internal combustion engine as a diesel engine without inducing a rise in the back pressure of the engine is provided. The catalyst for the purification of the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine is formed by using an open flow honeycomb containing in the channel walls thereof such pores as possess an average diameter in the range of 10-40 ?m.

Abstract: A method for producing fine silver particles which is characterized by making an aqueous silver ammine complex solution and a reducing agent solution come in contact with each other in an open space to reduce the silver ammine complex and deposit fine silver particles, either in which the contacting is conducted by (i) a method of spraying an aqueous silver ammine complex solution and a reducing agent solution through nozzles or (ii) a method of discharging an aqueous silver ammine complex solution and a reducing agent solution from obliquely downward nozzles opposite to each other to thereby produce fine silver particles which are free from coarse particles having particle sizes of 5 ?m or more and have a mean particle size of primary particles of 0.08 to 1.0 ?m and crystallite sizes of 20 to 150 nm or in which an aqueous silver ammine complex solution having a silver concentration of 20 to 180 g/L and an organic reducing agent solution having a reducing agent concentration of about 0.6 to about 1.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a separation process that enables the efficient separation of selenium, tellurium, and platinum group elements from a material containing selenium/tellurium and platinum group elements. In order to achieve this object, the invention provides a separation process for platinum group elements comprising: a step (A) for treating a material containing selenium/tellurium and platinum group elements with alkali, a step (B) for leaching selenium/tellurium, and a step (C) for separating the platinum group element-containing leaching residue and the selenium/tellurium leachate.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst contains copper oxide, ZSM-5 and/or zeolite ?, and an oxide of magnesium and/or calcium is further added thereto. A process for purifying an exhaust gas using such a catalyst is also included. By using the catalyst, NOx in an exhaust gas containing much oxygen such as exhaust gas of diesel engines can be efficiently removed and oxidation of SO2 under high-temperature conditions can be suppressed.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst has a catalytic component including copper, ZSM-5, and ? zeolite. This exhaust gas purifying catalyst reduces nitrogen oxides even from low temperature range and exhibits durability even under a thermal load of high temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fumaric acid derivatives and ophthalmic lenses using them. More specifically, the present invention relates to a fumaric acid derivative having a hydrophilic group and a silicon-containing alkyl group within a molecule, and to contact lenses or intraocular lenses. The fumaric acid derivatives of the present invention provide, on one hand, superior oxygen permeability by having a silicon-containing alkyl group within the molecular structure, and on the other hand, improved compatibility with other hydrophilic monomers by having a hydrophilic group within the same molecule.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising: a core portion including a plurality of tubes; a pair of header tanks communicating with the tubes; and a pair of inserts arranged substantially parallel to the length of the tubes, and in such a manner as to contact the core portion at the ends of the core portion to transfer the heat from the core portion, and having the ends thereof supported on the header tanks; wherein a stress absorber to absorb the stress generated along the length of each insert is formed in the insert; wherein the stress absorber is formed over each insert from the upstream side to the downstream side in the air flow; and wherein the stress absorber is arranged in such a manner that the most upstream end and the most downstream end thereof in the air flow are not superposed, one on the other, along the direction of air flow.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes tubes and a tank. The tubes extend in a first direction, and are stacked in a second direction. The tank has a tube insertion plate part, and is arranged at an end portion of the tubes. The tube insertion plate part has tube holes in which the tubes are inserted, and ribs extending in a third direction that is approximately perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction. The tube hole has end portions in the third direction. The rib are arranged to overlap with the end portion of the tube hole in the second direction, and to provide a deformable part to be deformable in the first direction. The deformable part is located in the tube insertion plate part outside of the ribs in the third direction.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst contains copper oxide, ZSM-5 and/orzeolitep, and an oxide of magnesium and/or calcium is further added thereto. A process for purifying an exhaust gas using such a catalyst is also included. By using the catalyst, NOx in an exhaust gas containing much oxygen such as exhaust gas of diesel engines can be efficiently removed and oxidation of SO2 under high-temperature conditions can be suppressed.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst has a catalytic component including copper, ZSM-5, and ? zeolite. This exhaust gas purifying catalyst reduces nitrogen oxides even from low temperature range and exhibits durability even under a thermal load of high temperature.

Abstract: One object of the present invention is to provide a separation process that enables the efficient separation of selenium, tellurium, and platinum group elements from a material containing selenium/tellurium and platinum group elements. In order to achieve this object, the invention provides a separation process for platinum group elements comprising: a step (A) for treating a material containing selenium/tellurium and platinum group elements with alkali, a step (B) for leaching selenium/tellurium, and a step (C) for separating the platinum group element-containing leaching residue and the selenium/tellurium leachate.

Abstract: A translucent decorative board for use, e.g., as a window pane, light shade, partition or door pane is disclosed. The decorative board is comprised of a translucent substrate board and translucent cover sheets bonded to the surfaces of the substrate board. The substrate board is generally thermoplastic and the decorative cover sheets are thermosetting. The thermosetting sheet may comprise a substrate paper sheet and a thermosetting resin impregnated in the sheet.