Disclosed are azeotrope-like compositions comprising 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane and at least one C3 or C4 hydrocarbon, and optionally water, said compositions are environmentally desirable for use as refrigerants, aerosol propellants, metered dose inhalers, blowing agents for polymer foam, heat transfer media, and gaseous dielectrics.

Nanostructured metal powder and the method of fabricating the same. A twin-wire electric arc process is performed to melt the wire tips, and metal melt is formed. Simultaneously, the metal melt is broken up into melt droplets by an atomizing device. The operating temperature of the electric arc process is controlled between melting point and boiling point of the wire, for not to vaporize the melt ...

Provided is a porous para-oriented aromatic polyamide film which contains fine particles composed of a heat-resistant resin in an amount of 10 to 400 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of a pare-oriented aromatic polyamide and has a linear thermal expansion coefficient at 200 to 300 DEG C of from -50x10<-6>/DEG C to +50x10<-6>/DEG C. The porous para-oriented aromatic polyamide film shows...

A resin composition, wherein the composition contains a thermoplastic resin and an aluminum-containing inorganic compound; the thermoplastic resin and the aluminum-containing inorganic compound form a parent phase and a dispersed phase, respectively; and the following inequality (1): 0 < d <= -0.0997phi+2.97 is satisfied, in which a wall-to-wall distance of the dispersed phases and a content of th...

The present invention relates to an epoxy resin composition comprising elements (a), (b) and (c), (a) an epoxy resin, (b) an anionic polymerization initiator, and (c) a proton donor, wherein the elements (c) is an amount of 1 to 30 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the element (a), and the element (a) is a liquid and can homogeneously dissolved in elements (b) and (c). The epoxy resi...

An Internet-based document management system and methods are provided wherein access to the system and its services may be controlled through use of access tokens. The Internet-based document management system allows an electronic document to be stored on an Internet-accessible server and accessed using a previously known web browser, downloaded for review or manipulation, and then returned to the...

An information processing system for producing a building material has design drawing generating means for generating a design drawing information of the objective building, list generating means for generating list information as to members used for the objective building on the basis of the design drawing information provided by the design drawing generating means and members production control ...

A PDP has first and second substrates which face each other with a space in between. A display electrode pair and a dielectric layer are formed on the first substrate, and a plurality of discharge cells are formed between the first and second substrates along the display electrode pair. In this construction, two or more depressions are provided in the dielectric layer in an area corresponding to e...

Coupon systems and methods for delivering and redeeming coupons comprise a communications network defined by at least a wireless telephone network coupled to a computer network, where the communications network is associated with a plurality of communication devices that define a group communications net. A communications manager is operable to provide a group communication session by receiving a ...

A method for producing a capacitor comprises providing a raw structure having a substrate (210) and at least one dielectric layer (224, 226), wherein a first area and a second area of the substrate are separated by an isolating layer (212, 214, 216). Above the first and second areas, an electrically conductive layer (228) is arranged on the at least one dielectric layer (224, 226). Further, a mask...

In a thin film transistor, each of an upper electrode and a lower electrode is formed of at least one material selected from the group consisting of a metal and a metal nitride, represented by TiN, Ti, W, WN, Pt, Ir, Ru. A capacitor dielectric film is formed of at least one material selected from the group consisting of ZrO2, HfO2, (Zrx, Hf1-x)O2 (0 < x < 1), (Zry, Ti1-y)O2 (0 < y < 1), (Hfz, Ti1-...

The present invention provides apparatus and methods for separating fluid components, for example, hydrogen. In preferred embodiments, the apparatus and methods utilize microchannel devices with small distances for heat and mass transfer to achieve rapid cycle times and surprisingly large volumes of fluid components separated in short times using relatively compact hardware.

A data processing network and method for conserving energy in which an initial negotiation between a network server and a switch to which the server is connected is performed to establish an initial operating frequency of the server-switch link. An effective data rate of the server is determined based on network traffic at the server. Responsive to determining that the effective data rate is mater...

A mobile phone and an odorant module thereof. The odorant module includes a body and an odorant dispersing device. The body includes a tank and a channel. The tank stores a liquid odorant therein. The channel communicates the tank and the outside, and includes a hydrophobic wall for preventing the odorant in the tank from flowing to the outside. The odorant dispersing device is disposed in the bod...

A wood treatment composition for the preservation of wood comprises a mixture of creosote and a polymer which is miscible with the creosote at about 200 DEG F. and does not substantially phase-separate when the wood treatment composition is under ambient conditions. The polymer may include, but is not limited to, ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers, ethylene methyl acrylate copolymers, ethylene ethy...

An emboss carrier tape making machine reducing the extent of alternations due to heat contraction in a cross direction of a banded sheet A, stabilizing product dimension, and maintaining required product accuracy without edge waste. The emboss carrier tape making machine comprises a heating section 12 for rising the temperature of a place of the same length with a definite transferring length B of...

A method for heating glass batch materials before use in a glass melting furnace, the glass batch material comprising solid particle raw materials or cullet, or a mixture of the two, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a bulk quantity of glass batch material in a hopper; (b) providing at least one gas flow tunnel through the bulk quantity of batch material, at least a portion of the ...

A Java accelerator includes a hardware unit associated with the CPU portion, the hardware unit converting stack-based instructions, such as Java bytecodes, into register-based instructions such as the instructions which are native to the CPU. A thread lifetime unit in the hardware unit is used to maintain a count of the number of bytecodes to be executed while an active thread is loaded into the s...

The present invention provides a semiconductor memory system, which includes non-volatile memory and a controller composed of the method for controlling the non-volatile memory. The controller is provided to first input the management data of page data to the redundant area of the non-volatile memory before executing the program planning, and when moving the page data of the non-volatile memory to...

The present invention is a monitoring system for semiconductor testing equipment, which includes: a testing device, a storage device, and a processing device; wherein, the testing device is to test on a semiconductor device to generate a set of testing results; the storage device is stored with the data of a determination condition for the semiconductor device; and, the processing device can obtai...