More thorough results than in our previous paper in Nagoya Math. J. are given on the $L_p$-operator norm estimates for the Kac operator $e^{-tV/2} e^{-tH_0} e^{-tV/2}$ compared with the Schrödinger semigroup $e^{-t(H_0+V)}$. The Schrödinger operators $H_0+V$ to be treated in…