Abstract:
A color liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal layer (3) of a nematic liquid crystal having positive dielectric anisotropy and including a chiral material, which is interposed between two substrates disposed substantially in parallel to each other, each provided with a transparent electrode and an aligning layer wherein the twist angle of the liquid crystal layer by the orientation of liquid crystal molecules determined by the aligning layer of each of the substrates is 160 DEG -300 DEG ; a pair of polarizing plates (1, 2) disposed outside the liquid crystal layer (3), and a driving circuit for applying a driving voltage across the transparent electrodes, wherein a birefringent plate (4) is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and an upper polarizing plate (1) and the product DELTA n1.d1 of the refractive index anisotropy DELTA n1 of the liquid crystal in the liquid crystal layer (3) and the thickness d1 of the liquid crystal layer is 1.2 mu m-2.5 mu m; the birefringent plate (4) is so formed as to have a relation of nx>/=nz>/=ny wherein nx and ny respectively represent the refractive index (nx>ny) in the direction of film plane of the birefringent plate, and nz represents the refractive index in the direction of thickness of the birefringent plate (except for a case of nx=nz=ny); the birefringent plate have the sum DELTA n2.d2 of the refractive index anisotropy between a slow axis (a direction of nx in the film plane) and a fast axis (a direction of ny in the film plane), and the birefringence in the vertical direction corresponding to the thickness is 1.2 mu m-2.5 mu m; at least three kinds of voltage values are selected so as to be applied across the transparent electrodes by multiplexing driving; and development of color of white is effected by applying an OFF voltage.
Abstract:
A porous ion exchanger which has a porous structure having ion exchange resin particles bound by a binder polymer, and which has a water permeability of at least 30 kg.cm .hr under a pressure of 0.35 kg/cm .
Abstract:
A substrate with its surface coated with a water-soluble salt such as sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium sesquicarbonate, sodium hydrogencarbonate, sodium carbonate, sodium tetraborate or potassium tetraborate; a method of cleaning the substrate; and a method of patterning with the water-soluble salt.
Abstract:
A fluorocopolymer composed of 40 to 60 mole % of fluorolefin units, 25 to 55 mole % of vinyl ester or ether units and 5 to 25 mole % of hydroxylated vinyl ether units, wherein the intrinsic viscosity as measured in an uncured state in tetrahydrofuran is 0.01 to 0.05 dl/g and the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight to the number-average molecular weight as measured with a gel permeation chromatograph is 2.0 or less. This copolymer is excellent in weathering resistance and provides a high-solid coating material which has a good applicability and gives a coating film excellent in definition.
Abstract:
A cold curing polyurethane composition containing as a curing component an isocyanate-terminated polyurethane prepolymer prepared by reacting an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol mainly comprising a polyoxyalkylene polyol having a molecular weight of 1,500 to 15,000 per unit hydroxyl group and a total degree of unsaturation of 0.07 meq/g or less. Such a polyoxyalkylene polyol is produced preferably by the ring-opening addition polymerization of an alkylene oxide with an initiator in the presence of a double metal cyanide complex catalyst. This composition gives a highly flexible cured article by curing the same with an atmospheric moisture. The use of a high-molecular polyoxyalkylene polyol as the curing agent gives a similar highly flexible cured article. This composition is useful as a sealant or a waterproofing material.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal device has a pair of substrates, a first liquid crystal layer (4) of a nematic liquid crystal having positive dielectric anisotropy and including a chiral material which is interposed between the substrates, a power source to apply a voltage across transparent electrodes, a second liquid crystal layer (3) of a nematic liquid crystal including a chiral material which is interposed between another pair of substrates, and a pair of polarizing plates arranged outside the first and second liquid crystal layers, wherein the second liquid crystal layer contains dye; the product DELTA n1.d1 of the anisotropy of refractive index DELTA n1 of liquid molecules in the first liquid crystal layer and the thickness of the first liquid crystal layer d1 is in a range of 0.7 - 2.0 mu m; the axial direction of liquid crystal molecules of the first liquid crystal layer in an area close to the second liquid crystal layer is crossed at substantially a right angle to the axial direction of liquid crystal molecules of the second liquid crystal layer in an area close to the first liquid crystal layer; the twist angle of the liquid crystal molecules in the first liquid crystal layer is in a range of 200 DEG - 300 DEG ; the twist angle of the liquid crystal molecules in the second liquid crystal layer is substantially the same as the first liquid crystal layer but the helical sense is opposite; and the angle of intersection of the polarizing axes of the pair of polarizing plates (5, 6) arranged outside the two liquid crystal layers is in a range of 60 DEG - 120 DEG .
Abstract:
A method for producing an alkali metal hydroxide by electrolysis in an electrolytic cell comprising an anode compartment and a cathode compartment, which comprises supplying an aqueous alkali metal chloride solution to the anode compartment and withdrawing an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution from the cathode compartment, wherein a fluorine-containing cation exchange membrane comprising a first layer of an alkali resistant cation exchanger with a thickness of at least 5 mum selected from the group consisting of the following (a), (b) and (c), and a second layer of a perfluorocarbon polymer having -CO2M groups (wherein M is an alkali metal) and a water content of from 2 to 7 % by weight in a 45 wt % NaOH aqueous solution with a thickness of at least 5 mum, is disposed with the first layer facing the cathode compartment: (a) a layer of a cation exchanger having alkali resistant inorganic particles of fibrils dispersed therein, (b) a layer of porous material of a cation exchange resin with minimum permeability, and (c) a layer of a cation exchanger having an alkali resistant polymer having no ion exchange groups embedded therein.
Abstract:
A method of bending a glass plate, comprising the steps of using a forming means, composed of roller groups comprising a plurality of rollers arranged above and below a transfer plane, along which a glass plate is transferred, to form by bending the glass plate interposed between the upper and lower rollers, transferring the glass plate while moving positions of the pluraltiy of rollers in the transfer direction in such a manner as to change an area where the glass plate is interposed between the upper and lower rollers, and bending the glass plate with a predetermined curvature, and an apparatus for use therein.
Abstract:
Molded articles produced by melt-molding fluorinated copolymer comprising 70 to 99.9 mole % of repeating units derived from CF2=CF2, 0.1 to 20 mole % of repeating units derived from CF2=CFO(CF2)3CH2OH, and 0 to 10 mole % of repeating units derived from CF2=CFO(CF2)2CF3 and subjecting the molded body thus obtained to heat treatment.
Abstract:
A double-glazed unit comprising at least two flat glasses arranged in such a manner that they face with each other across a spacing layer formed by resin spacers which are made of a thermoplastic resin composition comprising 50 to 98 wt.% of a butyl rubber and 2 to 50 wt.% of a crystalline polyolefin, each percentage being based on the total amount of the rubber and the polyolefin, and which exhibit a JIS A hardness of 10 to 90 at 25 DEG C.