PURPOSE:To improve water repellency by coating the surface of the film of >=2 compds. selected from metal alkoxide compds. or metal acetyl acetonate compds. formed on a substrate with an F-contg. silane compd. CONSTITUTION:One or more kinds of the compds. are selected from the metal alkoxide compds., such as tetramethoxysilane, or the metal acetylacetonate compds., such as titan acetylacetonate. A...

There is provided a monitoring apparatus for preventing paper breakage. For this monitoring apparatus, a light source 9 is disposed on the upper side of a wet paper 1, and a light emitting face thereof faces downward. An operation-side camera 5a and a drive-side camera 5b are disposed on the side opposite to the light source 9 with respect to the wet paper 1, and a lens face thereof faces upward. ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to perform the weight shift easily to take a natural position. SOLUTION: The binding device is provided with the base plate 2 which sets the side part 4 next to the base plate part 3 where the boots are put on the top and is mounted on the snowboard with a holding plate that is fitted into the mounting hole 8 which is drilled on the base plate part 3. Then...

PURPOSE: To make antimony itself inactive to hydrogen generating reaction, regardless of elution out of a positive electrode plate grillage and subsequent deposition on a negative electrode plate, and restrain the reduction of an electrolyte by adding a fluorine surface active agent to a battery system. CONSTITUTION: At least one type of fluorine surface active agents containing sulfate or carboxy...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prolong the life of a paper shredder by preventing break of cutter blades. SOLUTION: A paper insertion inlet 2 for inserting paper 10 though, a paper transporting route 3 formed continuously from the paper insertion inlet 2, and a cutter 9 for shredding paper 10 are formed in this paper shredder 1. An insertion detection sensor 4 is installed in the paper insertion inlet 2...

The invention relates to an aqueous preservative agent for grass and other agricultural crops, fish and fish products and meat products, comprising at least one C1-8monocarboxylic acid or at least one of their respective ammonium-, sodium- or potassium salts mixed with at least one of said acids and at least one corrosion inhibitor, comprising C8-22 fatty acid derivatives of trimethylamino acetic ...

An improved two-piece segmented mold includes a plurality of tread mold segments mounted to a frustoconical seat in a mold back by a T-shaped guide bar inserted in a guide slot formed in the seat. The segments are biased to a normally closed position in abutment with adjacent segments and in abutment with a mold side plate.

A highly reliable biosensor is provided which is reduced in influences of any interfering substance or preexisting oxygen in a sample solution. The biosensor comprises an electrode system including a working electrode (2), a counter electrode (4) and a third electrode (7) also usable as an interfering substance detecting electrode, a reagent layer containing at least an oxidoreductase and an elect...

PURPOSE: To efficiently produce a tire, to save the installation space of tire vulcanizing equipment and to easily perform the quality control of the tire. CONSTITUTION: Vulcanized tire cooling equipment 300 and unvulcanized tire supply equipment 500 are arranged to the space above a vulcanizing station and the distances between a plurality of tire molds and mold opening and closing positions, tha...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To execute a solid phase joining without melting a long sized aluminum alloy by arranging the same shaped member as a void part in the void part generated in a weld zone and welding. SOLUTION: A bar shaped rotating tool is inserted into the joining part of a work and transferred while rotating. Whereby, a frictional heat is generated between the tool and the work, and a frict...

PURPOSE:To obtain the polarizing film having excellent optical characteristics, such as degree of polarization and transmittance, by using a uniaxially stretched film consisting of a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) polymer having 45 to 52.5mol% syndiotacticity as a base material. CONSTITUTION:The uniaxially stretched film of the so-called atactic PVA polymer having the syndiotacticity lower than the syndi...

A release film comprising a release layer provided on at least one side of a biaxially oriented polyethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate film, wherein: (1) the release layer is a layer formed of a resin composition consisting substantially of an acrylic resin, a silicone resin and a melamine crosslinking agent, the amount of the silicone resin being 1 to 100 parts by weight based on 100 parts b...

An electroluminescent (EL) device is disclosed which has a pair of electrodes, an organic film therebetween including at least organic emitting material, and a vacuum evaporated metal film extending from the electrodes on to the outer surface of the organic film. The metal film protects at least an area on the outer surface of the organic film against air. The area is part of the border between th...

A method for the accurate formation of a three-dimensional article comprises providing a supply of substantially uniform size droplets of a desired material wherein each droplet has a positive or negative charge. The supply of droplets is focused or aligned into a narrow stream by passing the droplets through or adjacent an alignment mechanism which repels each droplet toward an axis extending thr...

A system and corresponding method for enhancing hygiene in a food handling environment include an indicator to be worn by a worker in the food handling area, an activating device located outside of the food handling area, a hand cleaning station located proximate or within the food handling area (remote from the restroom), and a deactivating device operatively associated with the hand cleaning sta...

In a device for atomizing and granulating liquid oxidic slags such as, e.g., converter slags, blast furnace slags or waste incineration slags, including a slag tundish having an outlet opening into which a height-adjustable lance for a propellant jet opens and to which a cooling chamber is connected, the outlet opening is surrounded by an immersion tube arranged concentrically therewith while form...

A method for interfacing scanned product information with the manufacturer of the product over a global communication network (306). Subsequent to scanning product bar code information (102), a proprietary wedge interface (104) adds additional information in the format of keystroke data. The wedge (104) comprises firmware which adds additional keystrokes to open a web browser window for insertion ...

A computer system for engineers to locate and obtain reference information associated with an engineering task to be accomplished by the engineers has a server computer and several client computers connected together over an Intranet or Extranet. The server computer has a database stored on it that includes engineering tasks, items of engineering reference information associated with the engineeri...

A method and a system are described for trade of goods, in particular electricity, water, fuel gas, and the like, and the method is characterised in that a computer, which is connected to a measuring unit for consumption of electricity, water, gas and the like, is arranged by means of a link to be connected to a trading system for the mentioned electricity, water, fuel gas and the like with the co...

In summary, the invention is related to the discovery of a class of compounds which comprises boric acid or maleic acid or a mixture of boric acid with at least one acid having a weak nucleophilic anion, which inhibits the reaction of a polyepoxide with a curing agent at low temperatures. In another embodiment the invention is a latent catalyst system adapted for curing a polyepoxide resulting fro...