Shiseido Company, Limited

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Minoru Fukuda

Masaru Suetsugu

Eiichiro Yagi

Fujihiro Kanda

Hiroshi Fukui

Tomiyuki Nanba

Kazuhisa Ohno

Masato Hatao

Toshihiko Nakane

Masumi Koishi

Shigenori Kumagai

Yoshihiro Yokokawa

Hiroyuki Yokoyama

Yutaka Okunuki

Masako Naganuma

Hisayuki Komasaki

Tadao Ohta

Toshihide Ebisawa

Susumu Takada

Yoshio Yahata

Tadashi Ito

Takao Kinoshita

Nobuhiko Shinoda

Kazuya Hosoe

Takashi Kawabata

Michihiro Yamaguchi

Kenichi Tomita

Kazuo Tokubo

Toshihide Ikeda

Yoshiaki Yagita

Osamu Moro

Takao Higashi

Rumiko Kaku

Yuki Shibata

Toshio Yoshioka

Toshihiro Tanaka

Yuki Yamase

Takeshi Kawaura

Kazuhisa Maeda

Norimichi Koizumi

Jyunko Suzuki

External escinol preparation for skin

An endermic liniment is provided which contains one of more of Piri-Piri extract, Pinon Negro extract, Pinon Blanco extract, or Cola de caballo extract. The endermic liniment exhibits superior hypochromic effects and whitening effects on pigment deposition, chloasma, freckles, liver spots, etc. after sunburn and is superior in terms of safety.

Liniment for melanin inhibitors

An external preparing for skin comprising one or more than two types of 2-hydroxy benzoic acid derivative and/or salt thereof represented by the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkoxy group or alkyl group in the formula. The external preparation for the skin according to the present invention has a suppression effect on melanine generation by inhibition of tyrosinase activity. Accordingly, an excellent bleaching effect based upon the suppression of chromatosis and a high degree of safety can be obtained.

External preparation for skin

A magnesium aluminometasilicate coated composite powder which comprises magnesium aluminometasilicate, or magnesium aluminometasilicate and at least one other powder coated on a surface of a core powder and which is usable in, for example, a skin treatment agent, decodorant, and oral composition.

Magnesium aluminometasilicate coated composite powder and use thereof

A spherical clay mineral powder or spherical composite powder comprising water-swellable clay mineral with specific surface are of 100 m.sup.2 /g or more is provided, and the composite powder can contain an organic, inorganic or metal powder, an organic substance soluble in an organic solvent or a water-soluble substance, and these spherical powders can be formulated effectively in, for example, cosmetics.

Spherical clay mineral powder, process for production thereof and

A composite powder wherein an organic or inorganic core powder is substantially completely covered with one or more types of organic, inorganic, or metallic powders having an average particle size one-fifth or less of the average particle size of the above core powder by means of mixing and compression. The composite powder may be manufactured by mixing and compressing the above core powder and coating powder using a ball mill or other mixer charged with a ball shaped mixing medium of an average diameter of 5 mm or less. This composite powder may be used in, for example, skin treatment agent, makeup type cosmetics, sunburn preventing cosmetics, deodorants.

Composite powder and production process

UV-ray sensitive composition and element for measuring UV-ray dose

A focal point detection system for detecting the focus adjusting state of an image forming lens during its focusing operation on an object is disclosed. The system comprises a focus detection circuit which produces a detection output that varies with focusing of the lens on the object; a plurality of display elements are provided for display of the focusing state of the lens; and a display control circuit which enables the display elements to display a greater number of focusing states than the number of these display elements through selective combinations of these elements on the basis of the output of the focus detection circuit. The system is capable of displaying intermediate focusing states such as a slightly near-focus state, a slightly far-focus state, and the like in addition to in-focus, near-focus, and far-focus states, so that the focusing state can be displayed stepwise in a detailed manner.

Focal point detecting system

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Yokohama, Japan

Minoru Fukuda