Abstract: An organic acid salt is deposited on the surface of a solder powder containing Sn and Zn. Alternatively, 0.5 to 10 wt. % of a nonionic surfactant is added to a flux. By a method comprising such a procedure, provided are a lead-free solder powder and solder paste having good soldering characteristics wherein the reaction of an activating component with an alloy component in a flux is suppressed.

Abstract: An improved line arrester is disclosed that includes a non-linear resistor. The arrester includes a pair of arcing horns are respectively provided on an earth side and a line side of the arrester, with an aerial discharge gap being provided therebetween. The aerial discharge gap is in electrical parallel with the resistor. The length of the aerial discharge gap is selected such that flashover does not occur in response to currents smaller than a rated discharge current of the resistor, yet flashover does occur in response to a current that is greater than the rated discharge current, but lower than a critical discharge current of the resistor. With this arrangement the resistor is protected against the lightning surge current greater than the critical discharge current.

Abstract: A superconducting fault current limiter composed of an induction coil wound around a core made of a soft magnetic material such as soft iron, ferrite or the like, a cylindrical superconductive body arranged in surrounding relationship with the induction coil and a cooling container formed to contain only the superconductive body therein and filled with cooling liquid such as liquid nitrogen or helium to immerse therein the superconductive body.

Abstract: A thermoplastic resin film having excellent printability comprising (a) a support layer comprising a thermoplastic resin film and (b) a pigment coating layer provided on the front surface of said support layer or both the front surface and back surface of said support layer, wherein said thermoplastic resin film contains 1 to 30% by weight of petroleum resin.

Abstract: An arresting insulator is provided which includes an insulator body made of an insulative material and a non-linear resistor. The insulator body includes a head for linking the insulator to an adjacent insulator, and a shed formed integrally with the head. The resistor is secured in the insulator body and has a non-linear relation between residual voltage and current. More specifically, the resistor has a characteristic that satisfies the equation:V.sub.NmA /H.gtoreq.300 V/mmwherein V.sub.NmA is a threshold reference voltage that causes a current of at least N milliamps to start flowing across the resistor to cause the resistor to perform a surge absorbing function. N is an arbitrary value in the range of 1 to 10, and H is the axial length of the resistor along a direction of electric field in millimeters.

Abstract: A method for producing a polyolefin foam sheet which includes heating a foamable base sheet comprising a polyolefin resin, a foaming agent, and a resin varnish. The resin of the varnish is selected from the group consisting of rosin, cumarone-indene resin, phenolic resin, alkyd resin, and shellac resin.

Abstract: Disclosed is a foamable phenolic resin composition comprising, as indispensable components, 100 parts by weight as solids of a resol type phenolic resin, 3 to 100 parts by weight of an acidic curing agent, 1 to 50 parts by weight of a blowing agent, 0.1 to 50 parts by weight of a saccharide and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a foam stabilizer, in which a partial or complete acetylation product of a castor oil/ethylene oxide adduct having a hydroxyl value smaller than 15 mg-KOH/g, which is obtained by acetylating a castor oil/ethylene oxide adduct formed by adding 20 to 70 moles of ethylene oxide to 1 mole of castor oil is used as the foam stabilizer and/or a resol type liquid penolic resin obtained by subjecting a phenol and an aldehyde to addition condensation reaction in the presence of a catalyst having a metal ion-forming capacity, in which the residual amount of the catalyst is smaller than 0.

Abstract: A method producing a low-density flexible polyurethane foam comprising stirring a starting mixture containing a polyhydroxy compound, a polyisocyanate, a foaming agent and a catalyst to thereby foam the mixture, in which a foaming agent selected from the group consisting of water, formic acid and its salts is used in an amount of at least 10% by weight as water equivalent per 100 parts by weight of the polyhydroxy compound, and the mixture is stirred at 15.degree. C. or below by previously adjusting the temperature of the mixture to 15.degree. C. or below and under a highly catalytic activity.

Abstract: An improved process for producing a flexible polyurethane foam having improved flame retardance and physical properties by reacting a polyhydroxy compound and a polyisocyanate compound in the presence of a blowing agent, wherein the improvement comprises using as the polyhydroxy compound one in which an aldehyde condensation polymer has been formed by polycondensation and dispersed such that it accounts for preferably from 5 to 30 wt % of the total amount of the polyhydroxy compound, and adding as the flame retardant a melamine powder preferably in an amount of from 5 to 100 parts by weight for 100 parts by weight of said polyhydroxy compound.

Abstract: An electrically conductive flexible polyurethane foam having fine and homogeneous cells, being low in swelling by water and superior in dimensional stability can be prepared by mixing an isocyanate terminated urethane prepolymer holding isocyanate monomers therein prepared by reacting polyether polyol(s) holding poly(oxypropylene) chains and not more than 30 weight % of poly(oxyethylene) chains therein with a stoichiometrically excessive amount of an isocyanate component with an aqueous dispersion of electrically conductive carbon particles containing water in excess of the stoichiometric amount necessary to react with the isocyanate monomers in the urethane prepolymer and foaming the mixture in a closed mold having a capacity smaller than the volume of a foam which can be obtained by conducting the foaming of the said mixture of the urethane prepolymer and the aqueous dispersion of electrically conductive carbon particles freely under atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: In a method for producing resol type phenol resin foams by using starting material for the foams prepared by blending a resol type phenol resin, a blowing agent and a catalyst, a low molecular weight resol type phenol resin with the number average molecular weight of less than 200 and a high molecular weight resol type phenol resin with the number average molecular weight of greater than 200 are mixed at a weight ratio of from 5/95 to 80/20 and used as the resol type phenol resin. The resol type phenol resin foams are excellent in adhesion, fire-proofness capable of foaming cure in a short time and useful for sprayed-in-place foaming, etc. The phenol resin foams produced by the invention are capable of integral foaming with rigid urethane resin foam layer into foamed laminates of excellent thermal insulation, fire-proofness, etc.

Abstract: A method of making a foam product including the steps of reacting an isocyanate component with a polyol component and foaming with a foaming agent to form a self-supporting intermediate foam material. The isocyanate component is present in excess of a stoichiometric quantity needed to react with the polyol component. The self-supporting intermediate foam material is then contacted with water and the self-supporting, intermediate foam material is heated to form a foam product, the water reacting with the remaining unreacted isocyanate component. The self-supporting, intermediate foam material formed by the first foaming step is rigid or semi-rigid at room temperature but it can be softened by heating to enable it to be used for deep draw molding in a successive cure molding process without cracking, splitting or being destroyed.

Abstract: There is provided a platen roll low in generation of noise with keeping superior printability which comprises a shaft and a single layer of rubber composition concentrically and tightly applied around said shaft or two layers of an inner layer of a resin concentrically and tightly applied around said shaft and an outer layer of a rubber composition concentrically and tightly applied around said inner layer.

Abstract: A laminated product for use as motorcar seats, carpets, blankets, sofas, chair seats and the like, excellent in continuation of antistatic effect, characterized in that polyurethane foam having antistatic effect is laminated on the back side of a skin material to add antistatic capacity to the surface of the skin material without losing the comfortable feeling thereof.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing molded products (or foamed and molded asphalt/urethane foam products) most suitable for sound-proof, vibration control and sealing members which are applied to the floor panel, dashboard and the like in a car, for example, and more particularly, a method of manufacturing foamed and molded asphalt/urethane products comprising introducing polyalkylene polyol having at least two or more hydroxyls in a molecule and polyisocyanate having two or more isocyanate radicals into a mold together with a catalyst and a foaming agent, and reacting them in it, wherein said polyalkylene polyol includes asphalt previously emulsified and dispersed therein; and a laminated structure including a layer of foamed asphalt/urethane foam made according to the method.

Abstract: An electroconductive article is disclosed, which comprises a polar group-containing high polymeric substrate, and an electroconductive layer of cupric sulfide formed therein and is produced by immersing the polar group-containing high polymeric substrate in an aqueous solution containing a bivalent copper compound and a reducing agent or an aqueous solution containing a monovalent copper compound, and at the same time or subsequently treating it in a solution of a sulfur releasable substance.

Abstract: A process for producing asphalt-blended polyurethane foams which comprises introducing starting foaming materials for polyurethane foams containing a polyoxyalkylene polyol and an organic isocyanate either as respective individual ingredients or as a prepolymer into an agitation mixing chamber of a foaming apparatus, while introducing a previously heated and melted asphalt into the agitation mixing chamber of the foaming apparatus, mixing the starting foaming material for the polyurethane foams and the heated and melted asphalt and then foaming them. Asphalt-blended polyurethane foams can be obtained simply and efficiently and they are excellent in general physical properties, sound/vibration characteristics and are suitable as sealing materials and sound-proofing or vibration-damping materials.

Abstract: A soft, low-resilience, cured rubber composition is prepared by mixing(a) 100 parts by weight of a polymeric material comprising a styrene-butadiene copolymer or styrene-butadiene copolymer mixture having a styrene content of 53 to 75% by weight, and 0 to 40% by weight of the polymeric material of another rubber ingredient,(b) 30 to 300 parts by weight of a filler, and(c) 5 to 100 parts by weight of a plasticizer, adding effective amounts of a vulcanizing agent and a vulcanizing accelerator to the mixture, and then heat curing the mixture. A similar composition further containing a foaming agent may be heat cured into a low-resilience rubber foam. Rubber and foamed rubber compositions have improved vibration-attenuating and shock-absorbing properties.

Abstract: A soft, low-resilience, cured rubber composition is prepared by mixing(a) 100 parts by weight of a polymeric material comprising a styrene-butadiene copolymer or styrene-butadiene copolymer mixture having a styrene content of 53 to 75% by weight, and 0 to 40% by weight of the polymeric material of another rubber ingredient,(b) 30 to 300 parts by weight of a filler, and(c) 5 to 100 parts by weight of a plasticizer, adding effective amounts of a vulcanizing agent and a vulcanizing accelerator to the mixture, and then heat curing the mixture. A similar composition further containing a foaming agent may be heat cured into a low-resilience rubber foam. Rubber and foamed rubber compositions have improved vibration-attenuating and shock-absorbing properties.

Abstract: A process for producing urethane-modified polyisocyanurate foams in which a poly(oxyalkylene-oxyethylene)polyether polyol is used as a modifying agent having the number of functional groups and the molecular weight in specific ranges with the equivalent ratio of NCO/OH being in a specific range and containing a specific quantity of ethylene oxide. The use of this modifying agent provides urethane-modified polyisocyanurate foams exhibiting excellent fire resistance and adhesion to an object surface.