Kao Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nihon Koken Kogyo Kk

Hiroyuki Shiomi

Naoki Kawamata

Eiichiro Misaki

Maoya Adachi

Takahiro Kaida

Makoto Takamiya

Hidejiro Kadowaki

Shigeki Kato

Kou Ishizuka

Jun Ashiwa

Hiroyuki Hagiwara

Yasumitsu Sakuma

Minoru Goto

Kunio Matsui

Tomohiro Onda

Takeshi Narushima

Toru Ugajin

Koichiro Suzuki

Yoshihiro Nozawa

Yoichi Endo

Isao Kobayashi

Koji Uchida

Takahiro c/o Nihon Koken Kogyo Kk Kaida

Maoya c/o Nihon Koken Kogyo Kk Adachi

The invention is a column contact apparatus for contacting gas with liquid in an upflow in a column container, containing two or more stages of honeycomb structural bodies in the column container in a vertical direction, a space portion formed between the respective stages of the honeycomb structural bodies and a flow-aligning portion as back-flow prevention means provided in the space portion between the respective stages such that the flow-aligning portion is not brought into contact with the honeycomb structural bodies, the flow-aligning portion including a plurality of holes with hole diameters of 0.5 mm to 8 mm.

Column contact apparatus and method for operating the same

The present invention relates to a pearl pigment obtained by coating the surface of a flaky powder with a colored metal or a colored metal oxide and further coating the surface of the above colored metal- or colored metal oxide-coated flaky powder with a colorless metal or a colorless metal oxide, wherein when the pearl pigment is applied onto the surface of black artificial leather in an average amount of 0.05 mg/cmand the intensity of light reflected from the pearl pigment is measured using illuminant C at a 2&#xb0; viewing angle with a spectrophotometric colorimeter which is provided with a sheet polarizer S on the light incident side and a sheet polarizer P on the light receiving side, the powder reflection light which is incident to the pearl pigment as a measurement sample at an angle of 45&#xb0; to the direction normal to the surface of the sample and is received in the direction normal to the surface of the sample has absolute values a* and b* of 10 or less, and make-up cosmetics containing the pearl pigment.

Pearlescent pigment

An apparatus having a first system for forming a composite light beam of two light beams to be made to interfere with each other, a splitting member for amplitude-splitting the composite light beam into three or more split light beams in the same area, and a second system for obtaining interference light beams of different phases from the plurality of split light beams. Also, an apparatus for effecting information recording on a hard disc drive device comprising an (i) optical system for splitting a light beam into two light beams, causing one of the two light beams to be condensed and reflected by the side of an arm for a recording reading head in the hard disc drive device, and superposing the condensed and reflected light beam on the other light beam to thereby obtain a composite light beam, (ii) a splitting member for amplitude-splitting the composite light beam into three or more split light beams in the same area, (iii) an optical member for obtaining interference light beams of different phases from the plurality of split light beams, (iv) light receiving elements for detecting respective ones of the interference light beams of different phases, (v) a control system for effecting the positioning of the arm on the basis of the result of the detection by each of the light receiving elements, and (vi) a signal writing-in system for writing a signal into a hard disc through the recording reading head each time the arm is positioned.

Interference device, position detecting device, positioning device and information recording apparatus using the same

A one-phase electromagnetic motor drive controller includes a one-phase electromagnetic motor, a position detection mechanism for detecting a rotational position of the motor and a control mechanism for controlling the drive of the one-phase electromagnetic motor from the detected rotational position. When the torque constant of the motor is used as a parameter of a control calculation, the torque constant parameter is corrected by the relationship between it and the rotational position of the electromagnetic motor.

Motor drive controller

The present invention provides an optical recording medium which incorporates an inorganic based recording layer which has a high reflectance, sufficient for reproduction compatibility on devices such as CD-ROM drives, as well as a high degree of modulation between the state prior to recording and that after recording, as well as an information recording method therefor. Accordingly, an optical recording medium comprises a substrate (2) which is substantially transparent with respect to a recording light beam and a reproduction light beam, a first recording layer (3) which is layered on top of the substrate (2) and which incorporates as the main constituent a metal which has a low melting point and a high reflectance, and a second recording layer (4) which is layered on top of the first recording layer (3) and which will, due to heat generated from irradiation of a light beam through the substrate (2), either mix, or alternatively react, with the first recording layer (3) to form an alloy of low reflectance as well as forming irregularities or pitting in the surface, thereby enabling the recording of information. Due to the heat generated from irradiation of a recording light beam through the substrate (2) the first recording layer (3) and the second recording layer (4) are either mixed, or alternatively reacted to form an alloy as well as forming irregularities or pitting in the surface, thereby recording information.

Optical recording medium and method for recording optical information

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Utsunomiya, Japan

Hiroyuki Shiomi