Abstract: A surface light source device is provided that has high light extraction efficiency and high mechanical strength and can suppress a change in color tone at different viewing angles. To that end, the surface light source device includes: an organic EL element including a luminescent layer; and a light-emitting surface structure layer that is disposed in contact with one of the surfaces of the organic EL element and defines a concave-convex structure on the surface on the device light-emitting surface side. The concave-convex structure includes a plurality of concave portions having oblique surfaces and flat portions disposed around the concave portions. The surface light source device further includes a diffusing member on which the light emitted from the luminescent layer is incident, the diffusing member allowing the incident light to pass therethrough or reflecting the incident light in a diffused manner.

Abstract: A surface light source device is provided that has high light extraction efficiency and high mechanical strength and can suppress a change in color tone at different viewing angles. To that end, the surface light source device includes: an organic EL element including a luminescent layer; and a light-emitting surface structure layer that is disposed in contact with one of the surfaces of the organic EL element and defines a concave-convex structure on the surface on the device light-emitting surface side. The concave-convex structure includes a plurality of concave portions having oblique surfaces and flat portions disposed around the concave portions. The surface light source device further includes a diffusing member on which the light emitted from the luminescent layer is incident, the diffusing member allowing the incident light to pass therethrough or reflecting the incident light in a diffused manner.

Abstract: A surface light source device includes an organic electroluminescent element including a luminescent layer and a light-emitting surface structure layer disposed on one of the surfaces of the organic electroluminescent element. In the surface light source device, the light-emitting surface structure layer includes a concave-convex structure provided on a surface thereof on the side toward a device light-emitting surface, and the concave-convex structure includes a plurality of concave portions having oblique surfaces and flat portions disposed around the concave portions. The flat portions and/or the concave portions have a size difference in one or more of their width, height, depth, and spacing, the size difference being larger than the difference that causes interference of one or both of emitted light and reflected light.

Abstract: A surface light source device is provided that has high light extraction efficiency and high mechanical strength and can suppress a change in color tone at different viewing angles. To that end, the surface light source device includes: an organic EL element including a luminescent layer; and a light-emitting surface structure layer that is disposed in contact with one of the surfaces of the organic EL element and defines a concave-convex structure on the surface on the device light-emitting surface side. The concave-convex structure includes a plurality of concave portions having oblique surfaces and flat portions disposed around the concave portions. The surface light source device further includes a diffusing member on which the light emitted from the luminescent layer is incident, the diffusing member allowing the incident light to pass therethrough or reflecting the incident light in a diffused manner.

Abstract: A surface light source device includes an organic electroluminescent element including a luminescent layer and a light-emitting surface structure layer disposed on one of the surfaces of the organic electroluminescent element. In the surface light source device, the light-emitting surface structure layer includes a concave-convex structure provided on a surface thereof on the side toward a device light-emitting surface, and the concave-convex structure includes a plurality of concave portions having oblique surfaces and flat portions disposed around the concave portions. The flat portions and/or the concave portions have a size difference in one or more of their width, height, depth, and spacing, the size difference being larger than the difference that causes interference of one or both of emitted light and reflected light.

Abstract: To obtain high-directivity, stable, and high-intensity ion beam. An ion beam irradiator 10 is constituted by a combination of a laser-driven ion/electron generator 20 and an ion transporter 30 and is configured to guide ion beam with low directivity emitted from the ion/electron generator 20 to the output end while increasing the directivity of the ion beam or focusing the ion beam at the ion transporter 30. In the ion transporter 30, an electron absorber 33 is provided around a beamline 31 at a location on the upstream side in terms of the flow of the ion beam relative to multipole magnets 32. The electron absorber 33 is formed of a material (e.g., polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)) that can effectively absorb high-energy electrons. The electron absorber 33 is surrounded by an X-ray shield 34 made of heavy metal such as lead.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing wort with reduced content of a stale flavor-causing substance for the purpose of producing fermented alcoholic beverages such as beer and the like, in which the generation of a stale flavor is suppressed, and to provide a process for producing fermented alcoholic beverages such as beer and the like, in which the generation of a stale flavor is suppressed by using the wort obtained by said process. It becomes possible to produce fermented alcoholic beverages such as beer and the like, in which the generation of a stale flavor is suppressed, as a result of reducing a stale flavor-causing substance in wort by adjusting the grist fineness of a cereal raw material that are used for producing fermented alcoholic beverages such as beer and the like, i.e. by grinding the grains of a cereal raw material more coarsely than usual.

Abstract: A printing ink composition comprising: a vegetable oil; and a rosin-modified phenol resin having a weight average molecular weight of at least 30,000, the rosin-modified phenol resin being dissolved in the vegetable oil, wherein the printing ink composition has a content of a volatile organic solvent of not more than 3% by weight.

Abstract: A printing ink composition comprising: a vegetable oil; and a rosin-modified phenol resin having a weight average molecular weight of at least 30,000, the rosin-modified phenol resin being dissolved in the vegetable oil, wherein the printing ink composition has a content of a volatile organic solvent of not more than 3% by weight.

Abstract: A pharmacological composition including a component having pressure reductive activity obtained from Mycoleptodonoides aitchisonii fruit body which is safe and cheap, harvested constantly year-round by artificial cultivation, with equal quality, and useful for prevention and/or amelioration of symptom of hypertension caused by angiotensin I converting enzyme or the like. The invention also includes foods or beverages containing the pharmacological compositions, and methods of preventing or treating hypertension by administration of the composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide pharmacological compound including a component having pressure reductive activity obtained from Mycoleptodonoides aitchisonii fruit body which is safe and cheap, harvested constantly year-round by artificial cultivation, with equal quality, and useful for prevention and/or amelioration of symptom of hypertension caused by angiotensin I converting enzyme or the like, also to provide food or beverage such as functional drinks including the pharmacological compound and having pressure reductive activity as well as excellent palatability.

Abstract: In a signal selecting device, a mode determination portion 61 comprises a shift register 11, a clock generating portion 20 and decoder 51. The clock generating portion 20 receives a mode signal M and generates a clock signal CK1 used for decoding the mode signal M from a system clock SYS. The shift register 11 receives the mode signal M and the clock signal CK1 and outputs signals Q.sub.0 to Q.sub.3. The decoder 51 receives the output from the shift register 11 and outputs control signals S.sub.00 to S.sub.03. Therefore, there needs only one terminal for receiving the mode signal M and no terminal for receiving a clock.

Abstract: An address detection circuit is formed in a pod so that the circuit generates a detection signal DET when an address signal specifying an address in the address area assigned to a newly-added circuit section is outputted from an evaluation MCU, and a disabling circuit 313 is formed in a port emulation circuit 31a so that the circuit 313 disables an input/output circuit 312 from being set to the input state by responding to the detection signal DET.

Abstract: Foamed articles of polyvinyl chloride resins are prepared by mixing an organic foaming agent having a temperature of foaming by decomposition of 100.degree. C. or above and a plasticizer with a polyvinyl chloride resin containing epoxy group which is formed into particles having an average diameter in the range from 0.05 to 5 .mu.m and has a concentration of the epoxy group at the surface of the particle of 1.times.10.sup.-2 weight % or more and a concentration of the total epoxy group in the particles of the said resin of 10 weight % or less at a temperature where the organic foaming agent does not decompose and coating or molding the mixed compound with foaming by heating.Foamed articles of polyvinyl chloride resins having excellent physical properties and high expansion ratios can be prepared without utilizing a crosslinking agent at the ambient pressure.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for producing laminated glass wherein a film-forming plastisol is coated on a surface of a first glass plate to form a layer of the plastisol so that the thickness of the layer may monotonically vary; a second glass plate which has been heated at least at its peripheral portions is brought in contact with the layer of the plastisol first at a portion where the layer is the thickest and thereafter at portions where the layer is thinner, thereby gradually laminating the glass plates to each other while causing the plastisol to lose its fluidity at portions where is comes in contact with the heated second glass plate; and the laminated glass plates is heated under pressure so that the plastisol gelates. The process and apparatus are productive of laminated glass of high quality in high productivity.

Abstract: A vinyl chloride resin for safety glass, comprising either particles of a copolymer of a vinyl chloride monomer and an epoxy-containing monomer, having a particle diameter up to 5 .mu.m and a greater epoxy content in an outer portion than in a an inner portion of the particles, or agglomerates of the particles, and process for the preparation of this resin, comprising either adding an epoxy-containing monomer into a polymerization reaction mixture of a vinyl chloride monomer substantially during a latter half of the polymerization reaction of the polymerization mixture or adding an epoxy-containing monomer and a vinyl chloride monomer either in the form of a mixture solution or separately but at the same time into a polymerization mixture of the vinyl chloride monomer.

Abstract: A current-collecting elastic tire for a vehicle in which a plurality of electrodes of conductive material are continuously or discontinuously embedded in the tire body in the circumferential direction of the tire tread portion, and these electrodes are exposed at one end thereof from the tire tread surface and connected electrically at the other end thereof to the vehicle by electrical wiring so that external electric current can be collected by the tire.