PURPOSE:To contribute to a load leveling of electric power by providing an absorbent tank and an absorbent diluter in a absorption type Rankine cycle heat recovery system, and condensing an absorbent in a time zone of a little demand for electric power at night to store it while diluting the stored absorbent in a time zone of increasing a demand for much heat to generate the heat of cooling. CONST...

2073052 9106692 PCTABS00005 The invention is a ceramic solid electrolyte based electrochemical oxygen concentrator cell and the method for fabricating said cell. The cell is based on a doped cerium oxide ceramic solid electrolyte and lanthanum strontium cobaltite ceramic electrodes.

A substantially ghost-free head-up display for a vehicle such as an automobile is disclosed. A head-up display unit projects the image beam toward the vehicle windshield for reflection back toward the viewer's eye. The windshield is slightly tapered so that the reflected images from the outside and inside surfaces of the windshield are reflected at slightly different angles, chosen so that the ima...

An apparatus and method for determining the photosynthetic activity of a plant by determining the chlorophyll fluorescence of the plant is provided. The apparatus includes a light impermeable housing, a light to illuminate the housing, a light intensity in the housing and to adjust the light intensity controller. The light intensity may be between zero and 700 micromoles of photons per square mete...

A foamed heat-insulating material for cold storage and refrigerator, wherein the amount of a fluorocarbon blowing agent is reduced, which is prepared by stirring a mixture of a carbon dioxide adsorbent having a hydrophobic surface with a water-containing premix component and an isocyanate component. The amount of a fluorocarbon blowing agent can be reduced by using water as the blowing agent. Carb...

A pair of bipolar diathermy forceps used for surgery having two arms electrically insulated from each other and adapted to keep opening their tips usually, comprising a tube which extends toward the inside tips of the arms and which is mounted along a groove, the said groove is provided on either or both of the arms, an elongate section which follows the said groove, an operational section inserte...

A sole-support plate for a release ski binding is supported on the upper side of a ski by a pivot bearing and cooperates with a resilient restoring arrangement. The restoring arrangement includes an opening provided in the sole-support plate, which plate is made of an elastic material, the opening weakening the sole-support plate in the area of the pivot bearing so that it can be swung laterally t...

PURPOSE: To produce a catalyst having high selectivity and high activity by applying cobalt nitrate on a porous inactive carrier and calcining it/in an atmosphere containing nitrogen oxide at a fixed concentration or above. CONSTITUTION: As the catalyst or a precursor to the catalyst at the time of preparing a hydrocarbon from a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, the porous inactive carrier ...

PURPOSE:To obtain the subject high-purity naphthalene capable of ready purification at a low cost by rapidly heating a powdery coal containing a large amount of volatile matters in an atmosphere of hydrogen and carrying out simultaneous thermal decomposition and hydrogenolysis. CONSTITUTION:A coal such as peat-bituminous coal containing relatively a large amount of volatile matters is pulverized i...

PURPOSE:To obtain the subject compound as a raw material of medicinal and agricultural drug, dye or pigment, etc., in high purity in a short time with one stage reaction by using coal powder as a raw material and simultaneously performing pyrolytic decomposition and hydrogenating decomposition with quickly heating in hydrogen atmosphere and further quenching. CONSTITUTION:Coal powder is used as a ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a film or sheet which keeps high crystallinity, does not whiten and does not lose its transparency even in a heated atmosphere by treating a film or sheet formed by melt-molding a specified aromatic copolyester under specified conditions. CONSTITUTION:A film or sheet formed by melt-molding a copolyester resin comprising structural units of formulas I and II, wherein R is group of...

PURPOSE:To remarkably improve the yield of a liquid product by heat-treating a coal powder under specified heating conditions in the presence of a hydrogen donating solvent vapor. CONSTITUTION:In an atmosphere of an inert gas or hydrogen gas in the presence of a hydrogen donating solvent vapor, a coal powder is heated to 500-900 deg.C at a temperature rise rate of at least 500 deg.C/sec, kept at t...

PURPOSE:To miniaturize the device and to prolong the life thereof by providing plural resistors respectively having prescribed resistance values between a pulse light source and plural electrode lead wires in such a manner that the respective resistance values between the pulse power source and the plural transparent electrodes attain respectively the same values. CONSTITUTION:The segment display ...

28156-2 PROCESS FOR PREPARING POLYURETHANE FOAMS HAVING ZONES OF DIFFERING HARDNESS A process for preparing a polyurethane foamed article comprising a hard foam encapsulated by a soft foam is provided. The process provides improved encapsulation over that described in EP 68820 by frothing the hard foam formulation, with for example carbon dioxide, before it is introduced onto the rising soft foam ...

A polysiloxan-polyoxyalkylene composition of the nominal formula: wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and R.degree., R', R'' and R''' are individually monovalent polyoxyalkylene polyethers attached to the silicon atom through a difunctional link; and, the polyoxyalkylene of R' is a poly (oxypropylene-oxyethylene) ether which ontains 20% to 60% oxyethylene by weight and has...

Rigid polyisocyanurate foams are prepared by reacting together an organic polyisocyanate, a blowing agent, a trimerization catalyst, and a minor amount of a polyol, the polyol comprising a sufficient proportion of at least one polyoxyalkylene polyol having (i) terminal oxypropylene oxide blocks, (ii) a molecular weight of from about 300 to 3000, and (iii) an average hydroxyl functionality of from ...