A simple, environmentally benign building for on-site erection and fabrication is made of monolithic, architectural, structural walls, beams, girders, joists and panels of relatively high physical strength which exhibit great durability and resistance to fire, wind and seismic damage and which have highly desirable acoustic and thermal transfer characteristics. The wall is constructed by casting a...

A disposable diaper according to the invention include a liquid-impermeable topsheet, a liquid-permeable backsheet and an absorbent core therebetween. A pair of barrier cuffs which are elastically extendable in a longitudinal direction of the diaper are provided to a transversely opposite side flaps of the diaper. Front and rear ends of the barrier cuff are bonded to the diaper at longitudinally o...

A liquid ejection method includes a step of preparing a liquid ejection head including an electrothermal transducer element for generating thermal energy contributable to ejection of liquid, an ejection outlet for ejecting liquid, the ejection outlet being provided at a position opposed to the electrothermal transducer element, a liquid flow path in fluid communication with the ejection outlet to ...

A method for making an apertured nonwoven fabric includes the steps of: obtaining wet sheet from slurry containing 0.5 - 20 % by weight of fibrous component in water, which comprises, in turn, thermoplastic synthetic fibers having a length of 7 - 30 mm and a fineness of 0.1 - 0.8 d, and subjecting the wet sheet to a processing for fiber entangling by high velocity water jet streams and to a proces...

A process for producing an alkali metal cyclopentadienylide is disclosed which comprises reacting in a solvent an alkali metal hydride with a disubstituted or trisubstituted 1,3-cyclopentadiene. Further, a process for producing a dihalobis(~-substituted-cyclopentadienyl)zirconium is disclosed which comprises reacting a zirconium halide with the above alkali metal cyclopentadienylide. The former pr...

A developing roller is provided with a roller core, an electrically conductive layer provided on a circumferential surface of the roller core, and a covering layer provided on the outer circumferential surface of the conductive layer. The covering layer has a thickness of 30 .mu.m or less, but 0.1 .mu.m or more, and has at least its surface region formed of a porous body.

A method of producing electroconductive anhydrous zinc antimonate, comprising the steps of mixing a zinc compound and a colloidal antimony oxide in a ZnO/Sb2O5 molar ratio of 0.8 to 1.2; and calcining the mixture at 300 to 680.degree.C in a gas containing steam to produce an electroconductive anhydrous zinc antimonate having a ZnO/Sb2O5 molar ratio of 0.8 to 1.2 and a primary particle diameter of ...

The invention provides an electrical connector (40) of the type comprising a support (42) made of insulating material produced by moulding, having a flat upper contact face (46) and a plurality of parallel electrical conductors (44) in the form of elastically deformable blades which extend longitudinally, each of which blades comprises a first, curved front contact end (62) and a second, rear end ...

The present invention relates to a protection apparatus for a storage battery for storing and feeding power. The apparatus is comprised of an anomaly detection unit for detecting an anomalous state in at least one of the voltage, current flow, and frequency in at least one of the input power and the output power of the storage battery, the temperature and the pressure in the storage battery, and a...

A medical probe device comprises a catheter (14) having a stylet guide (16) housing with one or more stylet ports (40) in a side wall thereof and a stylet guide for directing a flexible stylet (17) outward through the stylet port and through intervening tissue at a preselected, adjustable angle to a target tissue. The total catheter assembly includes a stylet guide lumen (61) communicating with th...

The frame-relay frame transmission circuit of the present invention for reassembling a frame-relay frame into an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell comprises: a processor for determining a shift size for each connection, the shi ft size by which the frame is to be shifted from the top address of a frame buffer; a frame receiver for receiving the frame through the connection; a memory for storin...

There are disclosed a composition containing 9-cis .beta.-carotene in high-purity and an industrially applicable method of obtaining the same from an alga. The composition can be obtained through steps of washing with ethanol dry powder of the alga belonging to Dunaliella, adding hexane to the washed algal powder, stirring the same, subjecting the same to filtration to obtain a filtrate, concentra...

Process for molding polyurethane, according to which a mixture containing at least one isocyanate prepolymer and at least one hydroxylated organic compound which can react with said prepolymer is introduced into a mold, an internal demolding agent being added to said mixture, in which said internal demolding agent consists of at least one diester of at least one aliphatic, aromatic, alicylic or di...