Nippon Oil Corporation

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Chiyoda Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Honda Lock

Nippn Oil Corporation

Nippom Oil Co., Ltd

Tsuyoshi Asano

Yoshinori Nishikitani

Keizo Ikai

Masaaki Kobayashi

Masanobu Suga

Nobuyuki Kuroda

Masaki Minami

Takaya Kubo

Noboru Takaesu

Shinji Ohshima

Yushi Suzuki

The present invention provides a process for producing aromatic hydrocarbons at a sufficiently high yield, from a light hydrocarbon containing mainly hydrocarbons having 7 or fewer carbon atoms. The process of the present invention comprises bringing a feedstock containing mainly light hydrocarbons having 2 to 7 carbon atoms into contact with a catalyst composition comprising at least a gallium-containing crystalline aluminosilicate wherein a reaction step for converting the feedstock to aromatic hydrocarbons comprises at least two or more reaction layers formed of the catalyst composition, arranged in series and heating means arranged either between or in the reaction layers, the amount of the catalyst in the first stage reaction layer is 30 percent by volume or less of the total catalyst volume, and/or the yield of the aromatics in the product outflowing from the first reaction layer is from 0.5 to 30 percent by mass.

Process for production of aromatic hydrocarbons

The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a nano-array electrode with a controlled nano-structure by filling a compound having an electron-accepting structure or an electron donating structure into the fine pores of an anodic-oxide porous alumina film obtained by anodically oxidizing aluminum in electrolyte. The spaces defined between the nano-arrays formed of the compound by removing the alumina film are filled with a compound having an electron-donating structure if the nano-arrays have an electron-accepting structure and a compound having an electron-accepting structure if the nano-arrays have an electron-donating structure. A high-performance, high-efficiency photoelectric converting device comprising a nano-array electrode manufactured by the method is also disclosed.

Method for manufacturing nano-array electrode and photoelectric conversion device using same

The process of the present invention can easily produce a solid polymer electrolyte having a high ion conductivity, by reacting an acrylic copolymer comprising structural units represented by the following formulas (I) and (II) with a compound represented by formula (III) Y&#x2014;R&#x2014;Y, provided that in formulas (II) and (III), X and Y are a combination of an isocyanate group and a hydroxyl group, thereby being solidified 

Process for producing solid polymer electrolyte

A conventional electrochromic mirror comprises an ion conductive layer provided between a transparent electrically conductive substrate and a reflective electrically conductive substrate and containing spacers. The spacers can be perceived when the mirror was viewed. According to the present invention, the difference in refraction index between the spacers and the ion conductive layer is &#xb1;0.03 or less. Therefore, the electrochromic mirror having spacers in the ion conductive layer which are hardly perceived can be provided.

Electrochromic mirror

In an antiglare mirror apparatus mounted inside a vehicle compartment a mirror member is an electrochromic element comprising an antiglare material including an electrochromic layer, a light transmission electrode material and a light reflective electrode material where the light transmission electrode material and the light reflective electrode material are positioned on both sides of the antiglare material and a control circuit controls a drive-electric energy to the electrochromic element based upon a driving electric signal of a signal generator wherein the mirror member is detachably mounted to a facility in a vehicle compartment so that a holder holds the mirror member and the mirror member covers a pre-mounted inner mirror.

Antiglare mirror apparatus in a vehicle compartment

An electrochromic device comprises an ion conductive layer containing an electrochromic polymer that has a bipyridine ion pair structure and a metallocene structure and/or a dihydroxyphenaizine structure. The device has low leakage current and reduced remnant coloration after a long time use.

Electrochromic device

A method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror which comprises a step of applying a epoxy-based sealant containing beads by a method selected from the group consisting of dispensing or screen-printing on a predetermined position of the surface peripheral edge of at least one of two electrically conductive substrates; and a step of superposing the two substrates such that the width of the applied sealant is made 2 mm or less.

Method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror and an electrochromic mirror

An electrochromic mirror includes a transparent conductive substrate, a reflective conductive substrate, and an ion conductive layer disposed between the transparent conductive substrate and reflective conductive substrate. A highly conductive layer is provided on a conductive surface of at least one of the conductive substrates on a portion of the surface near its peripheral edge. The highly conductive layer has a smaller resistance than the surface resistance of the conductive surface upon which it is disposed.

A method for producing a cell for an electrochromic mirror by laminating two electrically conductive substrates which comprises the step of placing at least two plates each having at least one linear portion and provided with in a predetermined position with a punched-out portion having a shape corresponding to that of said substrate, such that each of said linear portions is located on the same line or on each of two lines offset from each other, in a juxtaposed relationship at a predetermined interval; the step of positioning said two substrates by inserting them into each of said punched-out portions; the step of shifting one of said plates holding said substrates therein over the other plate such that the substrates are located in a superposed relationship to each other; and the step of laminating said substrates.

An electrochromic device comprising a pair of electrically conductive substrates disposed facing each other and each having at least on its inner surface an electrode at least one of said electrically conductive substrates comprising a transparent substrate and a transparent electrode, an ion conductive material inserted between said pair of electrically conductive substrates, an electrochromic material-containing layer disposed between either one of said electrodes and said ion conductive material and an ultraviolet absorptive layer disposed between either at least one of said transparent substrates and the electrode disposed thereover or on the surface of said transparent substrate opposite to the transparent electrode disposed thereover, said ultraviolet absorptive layer being formed by coating and curing on the surface at said transparent substrate a reaction product of (A) an aminosilane compound of the formula (I) or the derivative thereof and (B) an ultraviolet absorptive material having in its molecules a carboxyl group,

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

An electrochromic device having a pair of electrically conductive counter plates, an ion conductive material placed between the electrically conductive counter plates, a layer containing an electrochromic material provided in at least one of locations between the ion conductive material and the electrically conductive counter plates, at least one of the electrically conductive counter plates being a transparent electrically conductive plate having a transparent substrate and a transparent electrode disposed inside the transparent substrate, and at least one of the transparent electrically conductive plate having an ultraviolet absorbing layer containing an organic ultraviolet absorber between the transparent substrate and the transparent electrode.

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.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tsuyoshi Asano