Abstract: Drop cloth systems include drop cloths having edge supports extending along two opposite edges of the drop cloths for preventing folding of the opposite edges along which the edge supports extend. Extending between the edge supports is at least one spring strip having the property of being substantially straight when unwound to maintain the drop cloths substantially spread out on the surface area to be protected. Also the spring strips have the property of being windable to permit the drop cloths to be rolled up from one of the opposite edges along which the edge supports extend for easy storage and transportation when not in use.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb segment joined body comprising a plurality of honeycomb segments unitarily joined at joint faces thereof by means of a bonding material layer, and an outer peripheral coat layer, the honeycomb structure having a plurality of cells functioning as fluid passages disposed in parallel with one another in a central axis direction. A thickness of the outer peripheral coat layer at least at one portion of the portions (portions on end faces) located on end faces in longitudinal direction of the bonding material layer in a cross-section in a direction perpendicular to the central axis direction is larger than an average thickness of the portions other than the portions on end faces.

Abstract: A plaster board including a plaster core having a front surface, a back surface, two opposite side surfaces and two opposite end surfaces and a covering base paper covering the front surface, back surface, and two opposite side surfaces, which core includes high-density hard edge parts including the two opposite side surfaces, at least one high-density part including the front or back surface, and having a density substantially equal to densities of the high-density hard edge parts, and a central low-density part having a density less than the densities of the high-density hard edge parts and the high-density part and being inscribed in the high-density hard edge parts and the high-density part, wherein each of the high-density hard edge parts is formed so as not to be present in the nailing area along longitudinal directions of the board in which a nail for fixing the board is driven.

Abstract: The invention discloses a device and a method for transferring a predeterminable, high-resolution magnetic design onto a document printed with a magnetic ink, in particular a magnetic optically variable ink. The device comprises a body of a composite permanent-magnetic material, having at least one flat or curved surface engraved with indicia corresponding to the design to be transferred, wherein the said magnetic material is permanently magnetized, preferably in a direction substantially perpendicular to the said surface. The method comprises imprinting or coating a first surface of a sheet or web with a magnetic ink or coating composition, and approaching the imprinted sheet or web to the engraved surface of a body of magnetized composite permanent-magnetic material while the ink is wet, followed by hardening the ink.

Abstract: A ceramic multilayer substrate exhibiting reduced pealing and breakage of an internal conductor disposed between a ceramic layer serving as a base member and a ceramic layer for restricting shrinkage includes a first ceramic layer 11, a second ceramic layer 12 laminated so as to come into contact with a principal surface of the first ceramic layer 11, and an internal conductor 13 disposed between the first ceramic layer 11 and the second ceramic layer 12, a phosphorus component layer 16a is disposed in the first ceramic layer 11 with a concentration gradient in which the concentration decreases in a direction away from the internal conductor 13.

Abstract: Disclosed is a decorative laminate structure having at least two sheets of polycarbonate and at least one decorative image layer there-between two sheets of polycarbonate, and a method of making the decorative laminate structure. Through heat and pressure the sheet layers and the decorative image layer are bonded together resulting in a decorative laminate structure of this invention. This product is intended for use primarily to produce decorative articles which include counter tops, table tops, cabinet doors, game boards, toys, panels for shower stalls, hot tubs, markerboards, indoor and outdoor signs, seamless vanity tops including sink, soap dish, back splash, flooring and others.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the use polycyclic diamines. These diamines, when polymerized with dianhydrides, and optionally other non-polycyclic diamines are used to form new polyamic acids. The polyamic acids can be imidized to form a new class of useful polyimide resins and polyimide films, particularly in electronics type applications.

Abstract: Individualized seed hairs, methods for individualizing seed hairs, chemical derivatives of individualized seed hairs, seed hair-containing soft fibrous structures, single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures and sanitary tissue products are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced composite material and a method for manufacturing the same, and also relates to a transparent multilayered sheet, a circuit board, and an optical waveguide.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention describes aerogel materials comprising an additive comprising a compound comprising at least two different metal elements. Another embodiment, involves aerogel particulates in combination with said compound. Said compound preferably comprises at least two different transition metal elements and may be in an oxide form.

Abstract: Provided are adhesive compositions comprising a mixture of a maleimide terminated polyimide resin, a thermoplastic resin compatible with the maleimide terminated polyimide resin, a thermally activated free radical curing agent, and electrically conductive particles and/or scrim. Various embodiments add a silane coupling agent and/or an ethylenically unsaturated compound with acid functionality. Methods of using the compositions also are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides a durable, lubricious coating for a medical article that can be prepared from a first polymer that is synthetic, soluble in a polar liquid, and having first reactive groups, and a second polymer that is synthetic, hydrophilic, and that includes second reactive groups. The first reactive groups and a portion of the second reactive groups react to bond the first polymer to the second polymer. A portion of the second reactive groups remains unbonded which, upon neutralization, provide lubricious properties to the coating. In some aspects the coating is formed using a crosslinking agent having latent reactive groups. The coatings provide particularly long dry out times and are very useful for catheterization processes. In addition, the coatings can be subject to sterilization with ethylene oxide and retain very good durable and lubricious properties.

Abstract: A multi-layer article is disclosed. The article contains a base layer that contains at least one thermoplastic resin and a second layer containing a thermoplastic (co)polyformal superimposed over the base layer. The (co)polyformal conforms to formulae (1a) or (1b), in which O-D-O and O-E-O independently denote a diphenolate group, -D- and -E- independently denote an aromatic group having 6 to 40 carbon atoms, k is a whole number from 1 to 1500, o stands for numbers from 1 to 1500, and m is z/o and n is (o-z)/o wherein z is 0 to o.

Abstract: Structures comprising substrates comprised of an organic material capable of accepting a proton from an organophosphorous compound and a film of the organophosphorous compound bonded to the substrate are disclosed. The structures are useful in a variety of applications such as visual display devices.

Abstract: A composition for and method for bonding a substrate. In general, applied to a substrate will be a primer composition that includes an adhesion promoter, which is an adduct prepared by the reaction of at least one aromatic polyisocyanate compound, with an active hydrogen containing moiety of an organofunctional silane, and a prepolymer derived from the reaction of at least one aliphatic polyisocyanate and a polyol, and is at least partially reacted with an active hydrogen containing moiety of an organofunctional silane.

Abstract: An elastomeric urethane composition that is the reaction product of an isocyanate and resin comprising polyetherol in the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst includes a metal selected from the group of titanium, zirconium, and hafnium. The elastomeric urethane is used in a method of making an article, which comprises reacting the isocyanate with the resin in the presence of the catalyst to form the elastomeric urethane, applying the elastomeric urethane to a mold cavity, and allowing it to cure to form a first layer. The method also includes applying a different urethane composition to the mold to form a second layer. The method further includes curing the article in the mold and de-molding the article.

Abstract: A composite article includes an acrylic layer, a UV-cured layer formed from a UV-curable composition, and a polyurethane backing layer. A method of forming the composite article includes applying the UV-curable composition to the acrylic layer such that the composition is between the acrylic layer and the polyurethane backing layer to enhance bonding between these layers. The UV-curable composition includes at least one monomer which is an ethylenically unsaturated methacrylate monomer, an ethylenically unsaturated acrylate monomer, or both. The at least one monomer has a hydroxy functional group. The monomer is compatible with the acrylic layer and the hydroxy functional group of the monomer is reactive with a polyisocyanate from the polyurethane backing layer. The UV-curable composition also includes a curing initiator that is reactive with the monomer. Upon exposure of the UV-curable composition to UV electromagnetic radiation, the curing initiator enables the composition to cure to the acrylic layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of forming a substantially planar SOI substrate having multiple crystallographic orientations including the steps of providing a multiple orientation surface atop a single orientation layer, the multiple orientation surface comprising a first device region contacting and having a same crystal orientation as the single orientation layer, and a second device region separated from the first device region and the single orientation layer by an insulating material, wherein the first device region and the second device region have different crystal orientations; producing a damaged interface in the single orientation layer; bonding a wafer to the multiple orientation surface; separating the single orientation layer at the damaged interface; wherein a damaged surface of said single orientation layer remains; and planarizing the damaged surface until a surface of the first device region is substantially coplanar to a surface of the second device region.

Abstract: The resin-coated metal sheet is composed of: a metal sheet; a lower resin layer containing a hydrophilic copolyester, formed on at least one side of the metal sheet; and an upper resin layer containing a polyester containing a diol component composed of a diol derivative of 1 to 10% by mole of alicyclic compound and 99 to 90% by mole of ethylene glycol, and a dicarboxylic acid component consisting of terephthalic acid, formed on the lower resin layer. The sum of cyclic trimer of alkylene terephthalate existing in the upper resin layer and the lower resin layer is 0.9% or less by mass. Since the manufacture of food cans using the resin-coated metal sheet does not induce white haze phenomenon and retort blushing phenomenon on outer surface of the can even after retorting, the decorative appearance on outer surface of the can is not deteriorated.

Abstract: Coating compositions are disclosed that include a film-forming resin, a colorant, a long chain alkyl group containing polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated compound, and a diluent. Also disclosed are substrates at least partially coated with such compositions, substrates at least partially coated with a multi-layer composite coating comprising at least one coating layer deposited from such compositions, and methods for improving the adhesion of a multi-layer composite coating system to a porous substrate.

Abstract: An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition excellent in neck-in reduction, stretching properties and further, gas barrier properties and a multilayer structure using the same, are disclosed. The ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition of the present invention is the blend of two or more ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers and at least one of the copolymers has the following structural unit (1). (wherein X represents any binding chain excluding an ether bond, each of R1 to R4 represents independently any substituent and n represents 0 or 1). Preferably, the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer having the structural unit (1) is obtained by hydrolyzing of a copolymer of 3,4-diacyloxy-1-butene, a vinyl ester monomer and ethylene.

Abstract: Implementations of the present invention relate aesthetically pleasing, post-formable, reparable decorative architectural resin panels having a thin or brittle veneer layer, such as thinly sliced natural wood or stone. In particular, at least one implementation includes a flat or curved decorative resin panel made with a natural wood veneer layer whose structural integrity has been maintained despite being subject to various heats and pressures. The resulting resin panel is at least partially translucent, and allows for a unique display both of the resin sheets used to form the panel and of the thin wood materials encapsulated therein. Additional implementations relate to the use of other brittle veneer layers, such as translucent stone, translucent metals, or the like, which also provide unique, decorative architectural, aesthetic features.

Abstract: The present invention provides electrodeposited copper foil with a carrier foil which permits the formation of finer-pitch circuits and also enables the multilayer process to be easily performed to meet the requirements for recent printed wiring boards. According to the invention, there is provided electrodeposited copper foil with a carrier foil in which an adhesive interface layer is formed on a surface of the carrier foil and an electrodeposited copper foil layer is formed on the adhesive interface layer, which is characterized in that the electrodeposited copper foil layer is provided with a passivated layer formed without performing roughening treatment as nodular treatment and that a nickel-zinc alloy consisting essentially of 50 to 99% nickel by weight and 50 to 1% zinc by weight is adopted as the passivated layer.

Abstract: A method for joining two ceramic parts, or a ceramic part and a metal part, and the joint formed thereby. The method provides two or more parts, a braze consisting of a mixture of copper oxide and silver, a diffusion barrier, and then heats the braze for a time and at a temperature sufficient to form the braze into a bond holding the two or more parts together. The diffusion barrier is an oxidizable metal that forms either a homogeneous component of the braze, a heterogeneous component of the braze, a separate layer bordering the braze, or combinations thereof. The oxidizable metal is selected from the group Al, Mg, Cr, Si, Ni, Co, Mn, Ti, Zr, Hf, Pt, Pd, Au, lanthanides, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy, a clad or unclad material for a brazed product containing the alloy as a core, and a method for producing the material, wherein the material is used for manufacturing the brazed product from the alloy.

Abstract: A process for incorporating a long persistent phosphor into a fabric material which occurs by firing a phosphor within a crucible, then grinding the resulting aggregate into a phosphor particulate of specified size, encapsulating the phosphor particulate within a water impervious coating material and then applying a specified ratio by weight of the encapsulated phosphor particulates into the fabric material. Further, a fibrous product is described incorporating encapsulated long persistent phosphor particles.

Abstract: Novel monoaminofluorene compounds are provided, and organic light-emitting devices which exhibit good luminescence hue of extremely high purity and have optical output with high luminescence efficiency, high luminance and longer operating life are provided using the compounds.

Abstract: A novel substituted fluorene compound is provided which is represented by the general formula [I]:

Abstract: A main chain-type or side chain-type polymeric compound having a structure wherein at least one metal complex segment having a plurality ligands is introduced into a main chain or a side chain is provided. In the case where the polymeric compound is the main chain-type polymeric compound, the metal complex segment has at least one ligand constituting a polymer main chain of the polymeric compound and having a carbon atom and oxygen atom bonded to a metal atom. On the other hand, in the case where the polymeric compound is the side chain-type polymeric compound, a polymer main chain thereof has a conjugated structure, preferably a conjugated double bond. A ligand for the polymeric compound includes a chain or cyclic ligand, of which a bidentate ligand having an organic cyclic structure is preferred, and the ligand has at least one carbon atom or oxygen atom and is bonded to a center metal atom, preferably iridium, via the carbon atom or oxygen atom.

Abstract: The present invention provides electronic devices comprising novel organic iridium compositions which provide for enhanced device performance. The novel iridium compositions employed comprise at least one novel organic iridium compound which comprises at least one cyclometallated ligand and at least one ketopyrrole ligand. The organic iridium compositions employed are referred to as Type (1) organic iridium compositions and are constituted such that no ligand of the novel organic iridium compound has a number average molecular weight of 2,000 grams per mole or greater (as measured by gel permeation chromatography). Type (1) organic iridium compositions are referred to herein as comprising “organic iridium complexes”. In one aspect, the present invention provides optoelectronic devices, such as OLED devices and photovoltaic devices. In another aspect, the invention provides OLED devices exhibiting enhanced color properties and light output efficiencies.

Abstract: Disclosed are electrophosphorescent organic metal complexes with formula (I) or (II), of either geometrical isomers, comprising two bidentate NN-type ligandsor a tetradentate NNNN-type ligand, and a transition metal. These electrophosphorescent materials are valuable to the application in organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), including red-, orange-, or yellow-light OLEDs.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cutting tool having high toughness and abrasion resistance, in which a coated cutting tool including a cemented carbide substrate, a cermet substrate or a ceramic substrate coated with a hard coating film by means of chemical vapor deposition, moderate temperature-chemical vapor deposition or physical vapor deposition, and/or a cemented carbide cutting tool, a cermet cutting tool or a ceramic cutting tool are subjected to wet blasting using 10-300 ?m sized particles to decrease residual tensile stress or increase residual compressive stress, thereby improving toughness, and also, reducing surface roughness of the cutting tool, thus remarkably increasing chipping resistance and flaking resistance.

Abstract: A pressable body is described possessing a flexural strength of at least 125 MPa and is flowable at about 850° C. to about 950° C. The body is composed of at least a glass matrix phase having a composition comprising Li2O and MgO. A dental article formed at least in part from the pressable body is also described. Associated methods are also described.

Abstract: A coating composition is disclosed that includes a binder, a tri-valent chromium solid, and a stabilized oxidizing agent. The coating composition is used in a method to protect a surface of a metallic article, such as an aluminum article. The tri-valent chromium solid forms a soluble hexavalent chromium compound as a result of reaction with the oxidizing agent when activated in the presence of a corrosive environment. The released water soluble hexavalent chromium migrates to coating defects to protect the metallic article.

Abstract: A corrosion-resistant granular magnetic recording medium with improved recording performance comprises a non-magnetic substrate having a surface; and a layer stack on the substrate surface, including, in order from the surface: a granular magnetic recording layer; an intermediate magnetic de-coupling layer; and a corrosion preventing magnetic cap layer. The intermediate magnetic de-coupling layer has an optimal thickness and/or composition for: (1) promoting magnetic exchange de-coupling between the granular magnetic recording layer and the magnetic cap layer; and (2) reducing the dynamic closure field (Hcl) for determining writeability and eraseability of the medium. Grain boundaries of the magnetic cap layer are substantially oxide-free, and have a greater density and lower average porosity and surface roughness than those of the granular magnetic recording layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention help to provide an excellent perpendicular recording medium of high medium signal-to-noise (S/N) and with suppressed blurring in writing. According to one embodiment, a perpendicular recording layer is provided by way of a negative magnetic strain soft-magnetic underlayer above a substrate applied with texturing in the circumferential direction. The soft-magnetic underlayer has a first soft magnetic layer, a second soft magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic magnetic layer formed between the first soft magnetic layer and the second soft magnetic layer in which the first soft magnetic layer and the second soft magnetic layer are antiferromagnetically coupled to each other and the easy magnetization axis is directed in the radial direction.

Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises: a fuel storage means for storing a fuel; a direct borohydride fuel cell (DBFC); a fuel circulation supply means for circulation and supplying a fuel to an anode of the DBFC from the fuel storage means; a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) for receiving hydrogen generated at the anode of the DBFC as a fuel; a hydrogen control means for controlling hydrogen generated from the anode of the DBFC in correspondence to an amount required by the PEMFC and thereby supplying the hydrogen to the PEMFC; and an air supply means for supplying air to a cathode of the DBFC and an cathode of the PEMFC.

Abstract: The present inventions relate to power systems (for example, fuel cell power systems) and architectures having an integration plane to incorporate various technology modules therein including, for example, one or more fuel cell stacks, fuel storage containers/tanks (for example, hydrogen, methanol and/or hydrogen containing compounds or substances from which hydrogen can be extracted on demand (e.g.

Abstract: The present inventions relate to power systems (for example, fuel cell power systems) and architectures having an integration plane to incorporate various technology modules therein including, for example, one or more fuel cell stacks, fuel storage containers/tanks (for example, hydrogen, methanol and/or hydrogen containing compounds or substances from which hydrogen can be extracted on demand (e.g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anode side hydrogen/oxygen interface formation inhibition structure of a fuel cell vehicle which prevents a high voltage field due to hydrogen/oxygen interface formation from being formed so that a stable stack driving may be realized when the fuel cell vehicle starts up or shuts down.

Abstract: This cathode-side humidification tank 1038 also functions as a coolant tank. The water in the cathode-side humidification tank 1038 cools the fuel cell 1030 and returns to the cathode-side humidification tank 1038. In the foregoing situations where the fuel cell 1030 is low in temperature, such as during the startup of the fuel cell system 1100, the coolant warmed by the heat exchanger HEX05 can also be supplied to the fuel cell 1030 to warm up the fuel cell 1030. Moreover, a coolant channel 1040 for supplying a coolant to a cooling plate 1036 provided in the fuel cell 1030 is in connection with a heat exchanger HEX06 which is formed in an anode-side humidification tank 1042. Consequently, the coolant even plays the role of maintaining the cathode-side humidification tank 1038 and the anode-side humidification tank 1042 in almost the same temperatures.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack which comprises a plurality of unit fuel cells laminated via separators, and is connected to external resistors each allowing a feeble current to flow to each unit fuel cell, whereby such problems as an open-circuit voltage generation and corrosion that may be caused by fuel gas remaining after operation shutdown can be resolved. A switch is preferably attached in series with an external resistor.

Abstract: A combination fuel cell and hydrogen or oxygen pump includes an electrochemical cell comprising an anode inlet for receiving fuel, an anode outlet for exhausting fuel, a cathode inlet for receiving oxidant, a cathode outlet for exhausting oxidant, and first and second electrical connectors. A controller is operable for applying an electrical load to the electrochemical cell for generating electricity, and for applying an electrical potential to the electrochemical cell for purifying hydrogen or purifying oxygen. Methods and infrastructure systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and device for operating a fuel cell system. A recirculation loop coupled to a fuel cell cathode ensures that fluids passing through the cathode are recycled, thereby enabling reaction between residual oxygen in the recycled fluid and fuel that has been introduced into the recirculation loop until substantially all of the oxygen is reacted, leaving a substantially oxygen-free, predominantly nitrogen compound in the cathode and related flowpath. Thereafter, this compound can be redirected to purge the remaining residual hydrogen resident in the fuel cell's anode and related flowpath. While the present invention is usable during any period of system operation, it is especially valuable for operational conditions associated with starting up and shutting down a fuel cell system to inhibit the formation of high voltage potentials that could otherwise damage fuel cell catalysts or catalysts supports.

Abstract: A fuel cell system including: a reformer for generating hydrogen from a fuel containing hydrogen; at least one electricity generator for generating electric energy through an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; a fuel supply unit for supplying the fuel to the reformer; and an oxygen supply unit for supplying oxygen to the reformer and the electricity generator. Here, the reformer includes a plurality of plates stacked to form at least one passage for allowing a material selected from the group consisting of the fuel and a gas to flow therethrough, and at least one catalyst layer formed on entire surfaces of the at least one passage.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell that is subjected to a purge operation of supplying an inert gas to an anode and/or cathode upon shut-down of the fuel cell. The differential pressure ?P is defined as ?P=Pa?Pc where Pa is the pressure in an inlet-side flow path leading to the anode and Pc is the pressure in an inlet-side flow path leading to the cathode. The differential pressure during the purge operation is controlled such that the differential pressure during operation ?Po and the differential pressure during the purge operation ?Pp satisfy the relation: 0<?Po×?Pp. This makes it possible to reduce the stress exerted on a solid electrolyte membrane and improve the long-term reliability of the fuel cell.

Abstract: A power generation cell includes a membrane electrode assembly, with an anode side metal separator and a cathode side metal separator sandwiching the membrane electrode assembly. Flow field walls are provided within the coolant flow field for preventing coolant from flowing into an area corresponding to an oxygen-containing gas inlet buffer, while allowing the coolant to flow into an area corresponding to an oxygen-containing gas outlet buffer. Likewise, flow field walls contact each other for preventing the coolant from flowing into an area corresponding to a fuel gas inlet buffer, while allowing the fuel gas to flow into an area corresponding to a fuel gas outlet buffer.

Abstract: A condenser condenses an unused exhaust gas exhausted from a fuel cell and recovers water, condensation-capacity detection means always monitors the condensation capacity of the condenser, control means controls an output of heat-transport-medium circulation means, stores the exhaust heat of the fuel cell in heat-using means when a sufficient condensation capacity is left, and stops the heat-transport-medium circulation means to complete exhaust-heat recovery when the condensation capacity lowers. Moreover, a fuel cell, a cooling pipe through which a first heating medium of carrying the heat of the fuel cell circulates, a cooling-water pump of circulating the first heating medium, and a fuel-cell-temperature detector of detecting the temperature of the fuel cell are used to operate a cooling-water pump until the temperature detected by the fuel-cell-temperature detector becomes a predetermine threshold value or less even after supply of a fuel and an oxidant to the fuel cell is stopped.

Abstract: A proton conductor comprises a base material, an acidic substance and a basic substance, wherein the acidic substance has protons; at least part of the protons are dissociated by the basic substance; and at least one of the acidic and basic substances is immobilized on a surface of the base material. At least part of the acidic substance and/or at least part of the basic substance may be a polymer. A powder or a porous body having pores or through-holes can be used as the base material. An organic compound having a hydrophilic part and a hydrophobic part in the molecule can be used as the at least one of the acidic and basic substances.

Abstract: A suite of polymer/zeolite nanocomposite membranes. The polymer backbone is preferably a film forming fluorinated sulfonic acid containing copolymer, such as a Teflon type polymer, a perfluorinated polymer, or a perfluorinated polymer with sulfonic groups. The zeolites formed in accordance with the present invention and which are used in the membranes are plain, phenethyl functionalized and acid functionalized zeolite FAU(Y) and BEA nonocrystals. The zeolite nanocrystals are incorporated into polymer matrices for membrane separation applications like gas separations, and in polymer-exchange-membrane fuel cells. For the purpose of developing zeolite-polymer nanocomposite membranes, the zeolite nanocrystals are size-adjustable to match the polymer-network dimensions.