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Central Glass Company, Limited

Tosoh Corporation

Showa Shell Sekiyu Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tokyo Electron Limited

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation

Tomoegawa Paper Co., Inc.

Yoshio Imai

Masaaki Kakimoto

Masa-aki Kakimoto

Yutaka Maruyama

Mitsumasa Iwamoto

Masaru Yoneyama

Taro Hino

Yasuyuki Takiguchi

Atsuhito Sawabe

Yoshiichi Suzuki

Masanori Tanaka

Akihiko Kanemoto

Hiroshi Akita

Tatsuya Hattori

Toshio Koishi

Ichiro Kawamura

Masaaki Suzuki

Kiyohiro Uehara

Hiromi Kumagai

Hitoshi Narushima

Toshio Tagami

Kaoru Sato

Osamu Kiyohara

Toru Konishi

Tadao Inuzuka

Yoichi Nabeta

Yoshiyuki Oishi

Masa-aki Suzuki

The present invention is to provide a liquid crystal monomeric compound where a liquid crystal phase readily appears, which is excellent in alignment control, film-formability, durability, heat-stability and compatibility, and is able to be applied to electro-optical liquid crystal elements and recording elements; and a side-chain liquid crystal polymer compound modified with such a monomeric compound. The liquid crystal monomeric compound is represented by the following formula:

Liquid crystal monomeric compound and liquid crystal polymer compound

Disclosed is a polyamide/polybutadiene/acrylonitrile block copolymer useful in a wide variety of applications, such as an adhesive film, which comprises a polycondensate comprising a polybutadiene/acrylonitrile copolymer having a carboxyl group at each terminal thereof and a polyamide having an aminoaryl group at each terminal, and which is represented by general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R is a divalent organic group, Ar is a divalent aromatic group, x, y, z, m and n each: represent mean degree of polymerization and are integers in the ranges of x=3 to 7, y=1 to 4, z=5 to 15, n=1 to 30, and nm=2 to 20, respectively. Also, disclosed is a method of producing the polyamide/polybutadiene based block copolymer by polycondensing an aromatic diamine with an aromatic dicarboxylic acid to form a polyamide having an aminoaryl group at each terminal thereof, and then polycondensing it with a poiybutadiene/acrylonitrile copolymer having a carboxyl group at each terminal thereof, preferably in the presence of an aromatic phosphite and a pyridine derivative.

Block copolymer and method of producing the same

An aromatic polythiazole is produced from a salt of an aromatic diaminodithiol compound and a dicarboxylic acid derivative, by a method comprising the steps of: (a) reacting the aromatic diaminodithiol compound salt with an alkyl halide having a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group in an alkaline aqueous solvent, so that hydrogen atoms in thiol groups of the aromatic diaminodithiol compound are substituted with the alkyl groups; (b) polymerizing the resulting alkyl group-substituted aromatic diaminodithiol compound with the dicarboxylic acid derivative to form an aromatic polythiazole prepolymer; and (c) heating the aromatic polythiazole prepolymer to cause a thiazole ring closure reaction, thereby producing the aromatic polythiazole. By this method, the amino groups of the aromatic diaminodithiol compound salt are selectively reacted with the dicarboxylic acid derivative.

Method of producing aromatic polythiazole

A heating furnace for semiconductor wafers having a heater arranged around a core tube, layers of a heat insulating material made of a porous heat insulating material or ceramic fibers arranged around the heater, and layers of a heat reflecting material arranged in the layers of the heat insulating material.

Heating furnace for semiconductor wafers

A process for manufacturing an aromatic polyester resin represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 represent a bivalent aromatic radical and n is an integer of 10 to 100, comprising reacting an aromatic diol represented by the general formula:

Catalytic method for manufacturing aromatic polyester resin from

A compound of ##STR1## (wherein n is an integer from 2 to 15; R' is ##STR2## m is total number of carbon atoms in R' and is an integer from 5 to 12, and * mark shows asymmetric carbon atom) which is useful for an electric indicative element of liquid crystal is provided.

Optically active compound

A film comprised of at least one monomolecular layer composed essentially of a polyimide having repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a tetravalent organic group and R.sup.2 is a bivalent organic group.

Film comprised of at least one monomolecular layer and process for its

A polyamide resin having double bonds in its main chain and containing repeating units represented by the formula (I):

Method for manufacturing polyamide resin from unsaturated bis-amide and

A liquid crystal element comprising opposed substrates, a liquid crystal nipped between said opposed substrates, and an aligning film formed on the surface of at least one of said substrates to effect substantially horizontal alignment of the liquid crystal molecules relative to said surface, which liquid crystal element is characterized by the fact that the molecules forming said aligning film are substantially aligned in themselves.

Process of making a liquid crystal element

An aromatic polyamide of sufficiently high molecular weight is prepared by reacting a diphenyldiamino compound having a hydroxyl or siloxyl group in each phenyl group and a Si-containing substituent in each amino group, e.g. 2,2-bis(3-trimethylsilylamino-4-trimethylsiloxyphenyl) propane, with an aromatic dicarboxylic acid dihalide in an organic solvent. The polyamide can be converted into a polybenzoxazole by a dehydrating and cyclizing reaction at 100.degree.-500.degree. C.

Method of preparing aromatic polyamides and polybenzoxazoles

Novel aromatic polyethers excellent in heat resistance and soluble in various organic solvents are obtained by introducing 9,9-biphenylfluorene group, optionally together with another divalent aromatic group, into the structural units of a polyether derived from either diphenyl ketone or diphenyl sulfone.

Aromatic polyethers having biphenylfluorene group

A process for preparing a diamond thin film by an electron assisted chemical vapor deposition (EACVD) is disclosed, in which diamond crystal nuclei are caused to form and grow to a thin film on a heated plate substrate under electron bombardments in an atmosphere of a mixed gas of hydrogen and a hydrocarbon in a reduced pressure. A Boron doped p-type diamond semiconductor is prepared by an addition of a trace amount of diborane in the mixed gas of the hydrogen and the hydrocarbon in said EACVD.

Process for preparing thin film and p-type diamond semiconductor

A capacitance humidity sensor according to the disclosure a non-conductive base plate, electrodes oppositely arranged on the base plate, a metal compound membrane formed by ion-plating independently on the electrodes, the metal compound membrane being roughened on its surface by plasma etching and being active to the humidity, and a moisture permeable metal skin formed on the metal compound membrane. The metal compound is preferably an oxide or nitride of aluminum or magnesium.

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Yoshio Imai