Abstract: Disclosed is a container-packed milk coffee beverage which has an excellent hypertension ameliorating effect and can be ingested in an ordinary manner. A container-packed milk coffee which has a pH falling within the range from 5 to 7 and satisfies the following requirements (A) to (C): (A) a chlorogenic acid: 0.01 to 1% by mass; (B) hydroxyhydroquinone: 0.08% by mass or less relative to the mass of the chlorogenic acid; and (C) the chlorogenic acid/a coffee solid content ?0.03 (by mass).

Abstract: Provision of a packaged milk coffee beverage having excellent hypertensive effects. A packaged milk coffee beverage satisfying the following conditions (A) to (C): (A) from 0.01 to 1 wt % of chlorogenic acids, (B) less than 0.1 wt % of hydroxyhydroquinone based on a content of the chlorogenic acids, and (C) a pH of from 5.0 to 6.4.

Abstract: Provided is a fecal condition improving composition containing (a) a compound selected from the group consisting of caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid and ferulic acid, esters thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, (b) a water-soluble and hardlyfermentable dietary fiber, and (c) a water-soluble and fermentable dietary fiber. The composition of the present invention is useful as a food or beverage, or a pharmaceutical for improving the fecal condition of humans or animals, more specifically, inhibiting intestinal clamping due to imbalance of the autonomic nervous system caused by psychological stress or dietary change, suppressing abdominal pain or discomfort, improving the fecal condition, and ameliorating constipation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a beverage comprising: (a) 0.05 to 10% by weight (wt %) of a chlorogenic acids family mixture comprising isochlorogenic acids(s) family wherein the weight content of said isochlorogenic acid(s) ranges from 1/20 to 1/3 of the total ingredient (a); (b) hydroxycarboxylic acid(s) in a quantity ranging from 5 to 30 times the weight content of said ingredient (a) and from 0.25 to 10 wt % of the beverage, and/or vegetable-derived or fruit-derived flavor substance(s) in a quantity ranging from 0.1 to 30 times the weight content of said ingredient (a) and from 0.25 to 10 wt % of the beverage; and (c) 30 to 99.7 wt % of water. The present invention provides a flavorous beverage having a stable antihypertensive action and long-term storage stability.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a face plate having a phosphor and an accelerating electrode laminated on the phosphor, and a rear plate having an electron-emitting device emitting an electron to a partial region of the phosphor. An average thickness of the accelerating electrode laminated on the phosphor of a non-irradiation region not to be subjected to an irradiation with the electron emitted from the electron-emitting device, is larger than an average thickness of the accelerating electrode laminated on the phosphor of an irradiation region to be subjected to the irradiation with the electron emitted from the electron-emitting device.

Abstract: By a method for manufacturing a flat image display device having a plate spacer, even if the center of the plate spacer is displaced from its initial assembly position, it can easily be corrected to the initial assembly position again, allowing stable production of high-quality image display devices. The present invention includes the process of forming a space between the plate spacer and a first substrate between the process of fixing the plate spacer to the first substrate and the process of tightly bonding the first substrate and a second substrate together.

Abstract: Disclosed is a catalyst useful for catalytic decomposition of high concentration ammonia, and also disclosed is a process for decomposing ammonia using the catalyst. As the ammonia decomposion catalyst, a catalyst which supports a metallic element selected from Fe, Co, Ni and Cu by ion exchange method on porous silica alumina having an Si/Al atomic ratio of 1 to 90 and a specific surface area of 200 to 900 m2/g and contains a noble metal selected from Ru, Rh, Pd, Ir and Pt in an amount of 10 to 500 ppm based on the total mass of the catalyst is useful.

Abstract: The present invention provides a treating agent for a metal hydride-containing exhaust gas, wherein the treating agent is low in exothermic property and further high in performance in a treatment of harm-elimination for the metal hydride-containing exhaust gas, comprises at least one among metal hydroxide, metal carbonate, basic metal carbonate, and further supports at least one metal among group-VIII noble metals on periodic table and silver. Therefore, the performance of harm-elimination for the metal hydride-containing exhaust gas is prominently improved. The treating agent in the present invention is high in performance and further low in exothermic property, thereby that is useful in the treatment for the metal hydride-containing exhaust gas generated in semiconductor manufacturing industry and the like.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an air-tight container and components provided in the air-tight container. The components include an image display member, a spacer on a surface of which a first electrode is provided, a first electroconductive member which is electrically connected to the first electrode and fixed to the spacer, and a second electroconductive member which is fixed to the first electroconductive member by a weld joining and provided outside an image display area in the air-tight container. The second electroconductive member is defined with a predetermined potential.

Abstract: An image displaying apparatus which can easily fix an electrode plate to a predetermined position is provided. An electric potential of the electrode plate, a distance between the electrode plate and a first substrate, and a distance between the electrode plate and a second substrate are set so that a Coulomb attracting force acts in the direction in which the electrode plate is come into contact with a shoulder portion of a spacer.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes an air-tight container, and an image display member and a spacer provided in the air-tight container. The spacer has a first electroconductive member fixed to the spacer and is fixed to a second electroconductive member provided outside an image display area by a weld joining in the air-tight container. The second electroconductive member is defined with a predetermined potential.

Abstract: Provided is a drink containing vegetable juice and/or fruit juice and excellent in ease of drinking. A vegetable and/or fruit drink composition contains from 0.1 to 1.2 wt. % of (A) solids derived from vegetables and/or fruits, (B) an acidic polysaccharide water-soluble dietary fiber, and (C) water.

Abstract: By a method for manufacturing a flat image display device having a plate spacer, even if the center of the plate spacer is displaced from its initial assembly position, it can easily be corrected to the initial assembly position again, allowing stable production of high-quality image display devices. The present invention includes the process of forming a space between the plate spacer and a first substrate between the process of fixing the plate spacer to the first substrate and the process of tightly bonding the first substrate and a second substrate together.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a spacer provided therebetween and providing an atmospheric pressure resistant structure of a vacuum container formed between the first and second substrates. First and second support members are provided outside an image display area, with the first and second support members being joined together.

Abstract: By a method for manufacturing a flat image display device having a plate spacer, even if the center of the plate spacer is displaced from its initial assembly position, it can easily be corrected to the initial assembly position again, allowing stable production of high-quality image display devices. The present invention includes the process of forming a space between the plate spacer and a first substrate between the process of fixing the plate spacer to the first substrate and the process of tightly bonding the first substrate and a second substrate together.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a spacer provided therebetween and providing an atmospheric pressure resistant structure of a vacuum container formed between the first and second substrates. First and second support members are provided outside an image display area, with the first and second support members being joined together. An electrode is formed on either one of the first and second substrates, bearing the second support member, and is electrically joined to the second support member by a spring contact portion.

Abstract: In an image display apparatus in which an electron-emitting device is used, an image having high brightness and high contrast is formed while color drift is decreased to form the image having good color purity by suppressing halation. Assuming that a thickness is set at T1 in a portion corresponding to a center portion 9 of a phosphor member 6 and a thickness is set at T2 in a portion corresponding to a peripheral portion 10 of a phosphor member 6, a relationship of T1<T2 is met for the thickness of an accelerating electrode 7. Therefore, in the scattered electrons incident to the phosphor member 6 again, the scattered electron incident to the peripheral portion 10 of the phosphor member 6 has the large energy loss when the scattered electron is transmitted through the accelerating electrode 7, and halation brightness is decreased in the whole of the phosphor member 6.

Abstract: An image displaying apparatus which can easily fix an electrode plate to a predetermined position is provided. An electric potential of the electrode plate, a distance between the electrode plate and a first substrate, and a distance between the electrode plate and a second substrate are set so that a Coulomb attracting force acts in the direction in which the electrode plate is come into contact with a shoulder portion of a spacer.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a spacer provided therebetween and providing an atmospheric pressure resistant structure of a vacuum container formed between the first and second substrates. First and second support members are provided outside an image display area, with the first and second support members being joined together.

Abstract: A manganese compound exerting a higher environmental pollutant removal performance than that of a conventional manganese oxide is provided. The manganese compound is obtained by mixing and reacting a bivalent manganese salt aqueous solution and a permanganate alkaline aqueous solution containing a quantity of an alkali larger than a stoichiometric quantity. When comparing the manganese compound with an already-known manganese oxide, it is determined that a specific surface area has significantly increased, and the environment pollutant removal performance is significantly improved. The manganese compound according to the present invention has a high specific surface area value and a high environment pollutant removal performance, and is useful in the adsorption and oxidation-removal of the odor components discharged from factories, NOx, SOx, VOC, and the unburned components such as hydrocarbons, aldehydes and the like which are generated by incomplete combustion.