Nippon Oil Company

Nippon Oil Corporation

Nippon Mitsubishi Oil Corporation

Nobuyuki Kuroda

Kazuo Matsuura

Mituji Miyoshi

Takeichi Shiraishi

Toru Nakamura

Yutaka Shikatani

Mitsuji Miyoshi

Masanobu Suga

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Seiichi Akita

Yoshinori Nishikitani

Yoshio Tajima

Akio Itoh

Masaomi Matsuzaki

Naoki Kataoka

Tsuyoshi Asano

Takaya Kubo

Etsuo Kawamata

Mitsuo Matsuno

Fumiaki Oshimi

Kazutosi Nomiyama

Yoshiyuki Shimo

Akira Sano

Kunimichi Kubo

Izuru Sugiura

Mitsuo Okamoto

Hirofumi Kamiishi

Junichi Nagai

Ryuji Ichikawa

Tetsuya Seike

Tatsuo Horie

Yoshino Tajima

Kazutoshi Nomiyama

Shiro Ogawa

Kazuo Matuura

Humiaki Oshimi

A curved surface screen-printing apparatus adapted to screen-print a to-be-printed object having a large radius of curvature. Concentric curved-surface guides having an equal radius of curvature are respectively provided on both side portions of a jig table on which a printing board to be bent and used as the to-be-printed object is placed. A squeegee head crossing over the jig table, and a screen plate mounting frame are provided in the apparatus. A pair of steel belts are used to connect a corresponding one of the guides to the frame. The belts of each pair are made to intersect each other. An end of each of the belts is fixed to a side end portion of a corresponding one of the curved surface guides as viewed from a side thereof. The other end thereof is fixed to a corner portion of the screen plate mounting frame. A reciprocating motion of the squeegee head causes the screen plate mounting frame to perform a rocking motion along the curved surface of the jig table. Thus, an optimum gap between the screen plate and the to-be-printed object is maintained at all times in such a manner as to be uniform therebetween.

Curved surface screen-printing apparatus

A method for producing a cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol separator having a film of cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol for an alkali-zinc secondary battery, and a cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol separator produced by the method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of:

Method of producing a cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol separator for an

A transparent electrically conductive plate contains a transparent substrate, a transparent electrically conductive layer, an ultraviolet absorbing layer disposed between the transparent substrate and the transparent electrically conductive layer and containing an organic ultraviolet absorber, and an overcoating layer disposed between the transparent electrically conductive layer and the ultraviolet absorbing layer for protecting the ultraviolet absorbing layer.

Transparent electrically conductive plate

A counterelectrode for a smart window contains a transparent substrate and a linear electrically conductive material formed on a surface of the transparent substrate. The electrically conductive material has a surface area of not less than 10 m.sup.2 /g and electrical conductivity of not less than 10.sup.-6 .OMEGA..sup.-1 .multidot.cm.sup.-1 at 25.degree. C. A smart window contains an electrochromic electrode having a layer of an electrochromic material formed on its surface, and a layer of an electrolyte arranged between the counterelectrode and the electrochromic electrode and in contact with the layer of the electrochromic material.

Counterelectrode for smart window and smart window

A counterelectrode for a smart window contains a transparent electrically conductive substrate and a plurality of electrically conductive dots arrayed on the transparent electrically conductive substrate. Each of the electrically conductive dots contains fine particles having capacitance of not less than 1 farad/g or fine particles capable of storing electrical charge of not less than 1 coulomb/g. A smart window contains the aforementioned counterelectrode.

An ultraviolet absorber contains as an effective component a compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 denotes a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 denotes a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 denote the same or different groups and denote an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R.sup.5 to R.sup.9 denote the same or different groups and denote an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, a hydroxyl group or a hydrogen atom, X denotes an amido bond (CONH), a urethane bond (OCONH) or an ester bond (COO), and n is an integer of n.gtoreq.0. A coating material contains the ultraviolet absorber.

Ultraviolet absorber and coating material

According to the present invention there is provided a negative zinc electrode for an alkaline storage battery, comprising an electrode using zinc as an active material and a polymer layer which is substantially in direct contact with the electrode, the polymer layer containing at least a polymer having a crosslinked structure. There is also provided an alkaline storage battery using such negative zinc electrode and in which the occurrence of dendrites and shape change is suppressed.

Zinc electrode for alkaline storage battery

A negative zinc electrode for an alkaline storage battery capable of suppressing the occurrence of dendrite and shape change is provided. The negative zinc electrode comprises an electrode using zinc as an active material and a polymer layer formed substantially in direct contact with the electrode, the polymer layer comprising a polymer having an oxygen permeability constant of not less than 1.times.10.sup.-10 cm.sup.3 (STP) cm.sup.-1 s.sup.-1 cmHg.sup.-1.

The invention provides a specific polymeric solid electrolyte (ionically conductive polymer) having excellent physical properties, and a process therefor. The polymeric solid electrolyte can be obtained by reacting an alkali metal salt and/or ammonium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, a polyfunctional acrylate compound and a particular polyether macromonomer in the presence of a radical polymerization initiation accelerator and a radical polymerization initiator. The polymeric solid electrolyte has high ionic conductivity so that it can be employed in useful lithium batteries, plastic batteries, large-capacity capacitors, electrochromic displays and it can also be used for the 100% solidification of other electronic devices.

Polymeric solid electrolytes and production process thereof

An organic thin film electroluminescent device is composed of an electron transport layer, a hole transport layer and a transparent electrode. The electron transport layer is constituted of an electron conducting polymer represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, a thioether group, an amino group, a halogen atom, an aldehyde group, a cyano group, a nitro group or a hydroxyl group, x is an integer of 1 to 6, on the condition that, if x is an integer of 2 to 6, R.sup.2 may be the same or different, and n is an integer not less than 2.

Organic thin film electroluminescent device

The invention provides a process for readily preparing polymeric solid electrolyte, i.e., ion conductive polymer having excellent properties. The process of the invention comprises steps of subjecting at least one of the following component A and component B to contain an alkali metal salt and/or an ammonium salt and mixing the components A and the component B.

Preparation process of polymeric solid electrolyte

A polymer composition which is superior in processability, exhibits an extremely superior electroconductive characteristic when doped using an electron acceptor, and which comprises.

Polymer compositions

A hole transporting material is constituted by a compound represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, are each independently hydrogen or a hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 are each independently a divalent hydrocarbon residue; l is an integer of 0 or more; m is an integer of 1 or more; and n is an integer of 2 or more.

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Yokohama, Japan

Nobuyuki Kuroda