Abstract: A ring-like rib 19 is erected on an inner circumferential edge of an insertion hole 11, which is opened in the scroll casing 1 so that the fan f is inserted therethrough, while a side wall 18 facing the ring-like rib 19 is provided in the bracket 15 blocking the insertion hole 11. A helical groove portion 20 and a protruding portion 21 are formed in one of an outer surface of the side wall 18 and an inner surface of the ring-like rib 19 and in the other thereof, respectively. The bracket 15 is caught in the scroll casing 1 by turning the bracket 15 in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation of said fan f. Further, during the engagement therebetween, a cooling duct 4 is formed.

Abstract: To prevent the film forming characteristic deterioration by a magnetic field of a magnetic filter to thereby make vacuum arc vapor deposition uniform, in the invention, plurality of magnets includes a terminal magnet closest to a plasma injection hole located at the other end of duct and specified magnets. The terminal magnet located closest to plasma injection hole may be set to incline to a plasma injection plane of the plasma injection hole. Further, at lease one of specified magnets may be inclined to the plasma injection plane. Further more, at least one of magnetic field generating coils may be formed with a plurality of electromagnetic coils, which are inclined at different angles with respect to a cross section of the duct. One of electromagnetic coils may be selectively energized by current on a basis of setting and controlling of deflection magnetic field generated by the magnetic filter.

Abstract: The vacuum arc evaporation apparatus removes coarse particles from plasma containing cathode materials generated from a cathode 7 provided to a evaporation source 6 by a vacuum arc discharge, and is provided with a porous member 10 on the inside wall of a plasma duct equipped with means for forming deflection magnetic field having a magnetic coil 8 outside thereof so as to guide the plasma in the vicinity of a substrate 11 accommodated in the film forming chamber 1.

Abstract: A melt-blown, non-woven fabric constituted by extremely fine polyarylene sulfide fibers having an average fiber diameter of 10 &mgr;m or less is stably produced from branched and/or cross-linked polyarylene sulfide having a non-Newtonian coefficient of 1.05-1.20.

Abstract: The vacuum arc evaporation apparatus removes coarse particles from plasma containing cathode materials generated from a cathode 7 provided to a evaporation source 6 by a vacuum arc discharge, and is provided with a porous member 10 on the inside wall of a plasma duct equipped with means for forming deflection magnetic field having a magnetic coil 8 outside thereof so as to guide the plasma in the vicinity of a substrate 11 accommodated in the film forming chamber 1.

Abstract: The nozzle piece of the present invention is provided with circular cross sectional nozzles having different sizes disposed in a row in front of the die, with n-numbered smaller nozzles B (hole diameter: Db) between adjacent larger nozzles A (hole diameter: Da). It gives melt-blown non-woven fabric of monolithic structure in one step, composed of fine fibers having a diameter in a range from 1 to 10 &mgr;m diameter Variance ratio F of 2.0 or more and wide fiber diameter distribution.

Abstract: A film is deposited on a target object by exposing the target object to film deposition plasma of a film deposition material gas while irradiating the target object with ion beams. An ion source is used for the irradiation with the ion beams. The ion source has a plasma container and an ion beam producing electrode system formed of four electrodes. The plasma container and the first electrode located in an inner position nearest to the plasma container carry a positive potential. The second electrode carries a negative potential or a lower potential than the film deposition plasma. The third electrode carries a positive potential or a higher potential than the film deposition plasma. The fourth electrode in the outer position remotest from the plasma container carries a ground potential.

Abstract: A thin film forming apparatus has a vacuum chamber as a film forming chamber, a plasma generating unit and an ion source. In the vacuum chamber, a substrate is placed and a thin film is formed on the substrate. The plasma generating unit decomposes a source gas introduced into the vacuum chamber to generate a plasma of the source gas near a film-forming surface of the substrate within the vacuum chamber. The ion source is provided around the vacuum chamber. The ion source produces ion beams that are drawn out to be directed substantially parallel to the film-forming surface of the substrate to irradiate the plasma.

Abstract: There is provided a thin film forming apparatus in which plasma of high frequency is made of raw material gas in a film forming chamber 7, a thin film is formed on a surface of a substrate 12 in the film forming chamber 7 by the plasma of high frequency, and a characteristic of the thin film is controlled by irradiating ion beams 4 onto the surface of the substrate 12 at the same time, characterized in that: the substrate 12 is composed of a square plate having a regular square surface or a rectangular surface; and the thin film forming apparatus is provided with a high frequency electrode 13 for forming the plasma of high frequency into a cube or a rectangular parallelepiped to cover an overall surface of the substrate 12, on the surface side of the substrate 12.

Abstract: To provide a sound absorbing structure having a superior sound absorbing characteristic and an external appearance of the sound absorbing structure which does not cause flicker or the like, by disposal, for example, in the front of an air chamber, a plurality of ribs (2a) are disposed on one surface of the sound absorbing board body (2), and a plurality of through-holes (3) are provided in basal portions (2b) between the ribs (2a) to form a porous structure. Concealing materials (5) are provided between the ribs (2a) of the sound absorbing board body to conceal the through-holes (3), respectively.

Abstract: An outer mounting rail at a side opposite to a sound source side and an inner mounting rail at the sound source side are fixed to a metal securing part secured to an attachment base portion projecting from a top portion of a sound insulation wall. An outer stationary rail fixed to a sound absorbing body is fixed to the outer mounting rail by a joint bar, and an inner stationary rail fixed to the sound absorbing body is fixed to the inner mounting rail.

Abstract: To provide a sound absorbing structure having a superior sound absorbing characteristic and an external appearance of the sound absorbing structure which does not cause flicker or the like, by disposal, for example, in the front of an air chamber, a plurality of ribs (2a) are disposed on one surface of the sound absorbing board body (2), and a plurality of through-holes (3) are provided in basal portions (2b) between the ribs (2a) to form a porous structure. Concealing materials (5) are provided between the ribs (2a) of the sound absorbing board body to conceal the through-holes (3), respectively.

Abstract: A plate-like body structure for a sound insulation wall having a built-in solar battery constituted by the combination of a built-in solar battery structure having a gentle convex arcuate shape so as to be installed on the top end portion of a sound insulation wall in the form of a head piece, and a built-in solar battery structure having a built-in solar battery plate-like body held by transparent plate-like materials from its opposite sides and inserted into a window-like opening portion or a wall holding frame portion formed in the sound insulation wall.

Abstract: A polymer composition comprising resin components comprising (a) 5-95 weight % of a polyamide resin, and (b) 5-95 weight % of polyolefin + unsaturated carboxylic acid-modified polyolefin, and (c) additives comprising the following compounds in amounts per 100 parts by weight of the total composition: (1) 0.1-2 parts by weight of a substituted hydrazine: (2) 0.05-2 parts by weight of a hindered phenol compound; (3) 0.05-0.5 parts by weight of a phosphite or phosphonite; and (4) 0.15-1 parts by weight of a thiodipropionate.

Abstract: A high shock-absorbing automobile bumper with a smooth outer surface which may be manufactured by loading a preformed surface skin member into a blow mold, and then blowing a parison in the mold so that the blow parison is bonded to the surface skin member. The result is a hollow cushioning body firmly bonded to the surface skin member.

Abstract: A method for producing a high shock-absorbing automobile bumper with a smooth outer surface. The method includes the steps of loading a preformed surface skin member into a blow mold, and then blowing a parison in the mold so that the blown parison is bonded to the surface skin member. The result is a hollow cushioning body firmly bonded to the surface skin member.

Abstract: Fiber-reinforced polymer compositions containing resin components including (a) 30-90 weight % of polyamide resins, and (b) 10-70 weight % of polyolefins+unsaturated carboxylic acid-modified polyolefins, based on the resin components; and (c) 5-50 parts by weight of glass fibers per 100 parts by weight of the total compositions, a molar ratio of end amino groups in the polyamide resins to carboxyl groups in the modified polyolefins being 10-1000. The compositions have a morphology in which polyolefin domains having an average size of 0.5-5 .mu.m are uniformly dispersed in polyamide matrix phases.

Abstract: A fiber-reinforced polymer composition containing resin components including (a) 30-90 weight % of a polyamide resin, and (b) 10-70 weight % of polyolefin+unsaturated carboxylic acid-modified polyolefin, based on the resin components; and, per 100 parts by weight of the total components, (c) 5-50 parts by weight of glass fibers, and (d) additives including the following set of additives: 0.1-1 parts by weight of N,N'-hexamethylene-bis (3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxy-hydrocinnamide); 0.1-1 parts by weight of triethylene glycol-bis [3-(3-tert-butyl-5-methyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate]; and 0.1-1 parts by weight of pentaerythrityl-tetrakis [3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate]. An alternative set of additives are 0.1-2 parts by weight of N,N'-bis [3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) propionyl] hydrazine; 0.05-0.5 parts by weight of pentaerythrityl-tetrakis [3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate]; 0.05-0.5 parts by weight of distearyl-pentaerythritol diphosphite; and 0.

Abstract: A modified polyolefin-polyester graft copolymer includes (a) 10-90 parts by weight of a polyester having an intrinsic viscosity [.eta.] of 0.30-1.20 and an end carboxyl group content of 15-200 milliequivalent/kg, and (b) 90-10 parts by weight of a modified polyolefin having 0.2-5 mol % of an epoxy group or carboxyl group content and a weight-average molecular weight of 8,000-140,000.A thermoplastic resin composition includes (a) 5-95 weight % of an aromatic polycarbonate, (b) 95-5 weight % of a polyolefin, and (c) 1-30 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of (a)+(b), of the graft copolymer.

Abstract: A method of producing a modified polypropylene comprising the step of graft-polymerizing a propylene random copolymer containing an unconjugated diene comonomer represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 -R.sub.4 are H or an alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1-20, with a monomer having an unsaturated bond by a radical method.