Abstract: A method and system use a processor, video display and relational database to format, define, generate, maintain, distribute and analyze sets of related documents. The process stores document-specific data in a relational database. A computer-controlled video display guides the document author through the creation and maintenance of the documents, while enforcing the document structure and dependency rules. The creation of documents that relate to activities that require multiple actions at specified time points is driven by a time/action electronic matrix that serves as a central control mechanism for each document set; an example is a document set for use in clinical research studies of drugs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pump nozzle (1) for injecting fuel into an internal combustion engine, especially a single cylinder diesel engine, comprising a piston foot (3), a pump cylinder (8), a pump piston (7), an intermediate disk (16), and an injection nozzle with a pressure spring (14) a pressure spring plate (15) and a nozzle needle (20). The inventive pump nozzle has a reduced construction length by virtue of the pressure spring (14) being offset to the side of the nozzle needle axis.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for selecting an access router's protocol from a plurality of protocols in a communication system including first and second access routers for transferring a packet between the access routers according to the selected protocol. The packet is originated/terminated by users having a user address assigned and accommodated in the respective access routers. Storage is provided in the apparatus for storing a protocol type of the access router corresponding to the user address. The first access router issues a protocol request signal including the user address. The apparatus receives the protocol request signal and referring to the storage, responds to the signal with the protocol type of the second access router accommodating the user having the user address included in the request signal. The first access router, selects a protocol common to the first and second access routers to transfer the packet based on the response.

Abstract: A zone selection method for a mobile radio communication system selects one among many radio zones and switches a primary radio zone where a given mobile terminal exists to the selected radio zone without concentrating incoming and outgoing calls at a specific radio zone. The method prioritizes the radio zones according to the reception levels of signals transmitted from the radio zones and received by the mobile terminal as well as the performance of the radio zones including the call connection ratios and channel usage ratios of the radio zones, and then, the method selects the one having the highest priority among the prioritized radio zones.

Abstract: The preload of the double row rolling bearing unit after completion is kept at a proper value regardless of the elastic deformation of the shaft caused when pushing the inner race in the axial direction wherein the balls are first installed in the bearing at the first pitch P1 of the ball rows which is larger than the pitch p1 in the state where the preload is proper and then preloaded to a pitch slightly smaller than the second pitch p1, so that the ball rows have the second pitch p1 after the shaft is elastically restored.

Abstract: Radio communication is performed between a base station and a mobile communication apparatus including a speech signal processing unit, a codec unit, a radio unit, a power supply control unit and a main control unit. An intermittent reception ratio between a period of calls from the base station to the mobile communication apparatus and a period of intermittent reception effected by associated periodic supply of the operating power from the battery is set in an intermittent reception ratio setting unit implemented by a processor in a main control unit and a mode flag in a memory, in accordance with extended information items contained in announcement information from the base station. The intermittent reception ratio may alternatively be set by a terminal device connected to the mobile communication apparatus via a connection unit.

Abstract: In a local area network where communication between terminals is regulated by designating a management, or target, terminal, which is responsible for updating connecting regulation information on the other terminals, each communication terminal includes a station and a network interface. The network interface stores connecting regulation information in RAM. The network interface forwards or discards packets based on the connecting regulation information and the packet source and destination addresses. The network interface includes hardware, software, and a communication protocol designed to reduce the possibility of spoofing, where a terminal other than the target terminal changes the connecting regulation information. Each network interface includes a dip switch that is set to the target terminal's layer 2 MAC address or its layer 3 IP, or network, address.

Abstract: A work unit for automatic machine tools is provided with a spindle that moves in translation and rotates with respect to a work axis. The spindle is housed within a sleeve that is slidable along the work axis, with the spindle being rotatable within. Rotation of the spindle is controlled by a drive unit mounted directly on the spindle and arranged inside the sleeve, which eliminates the need for a separate transmission mechanism and thereby results in a simplified construction of the work unit and an increase in performance.

Abstract: There is provided in accordance with the invention a method for filtering comprising the steps of: providing a filter assembly comprising a depth filter and at least one microporous membrane; determining an optimal fluid velocity of the filter assembly by the steps of: operating identical filter assemblies at different constant fluid velocities, each for a time duration which terminates when a given total pressure drop is reached thereacross; noting the total throughput for such time duration; and based on the total throughput for each of said different constant fluid velocities, establishing a functional relationship between fluid velocity and total throughput for said filter assembly; and operating the filter assembly at a constant fluid velocity which corresponds to a desired total throughput.

Abstract: A relatively hard stiff core of molded material such as a thermoplastic elastomer provides a durable base for a softer, more easily chewable overcoat layer formed over the core. The core and overcoat may be molded in the shape of a dog bone. Recesses and/or bores may be formed or molded in the core to receive the overcoat material which flows into the recesses and/or bores to lock the overcoat on the core.

Abstract: A transmission device includes a channel allocation part which groups channels defined on a transmission line into groups and allocate, for each of the groups, the channels in one of predetermined transmission modes which can be defined on a dual link formation of a network to which the transmission device can be connected.

Abstract: A distortion compensating device provided in a receiver for compensating distortion which is added to a signal in a transmission path. The signal is generated in a multi-level modulator of a transmitter of which a digital signal is mapped to one of a plurality of specified signal points in a signal space diagram. The device includes discrimination circuits for discriminating a received signal according to threshold lines partitioning the signal space diagram into discrimination areas, the threshold lines being defined so that the discrimination areas on an outer side of the signal space diagram having each an area greater than an area of each of the discrimination areas on an inner side of the signal space diagram and a selection circuit for selecting one of a plurality of threshold line patterns based on a level of the received signal which is discriminated according to a selected threshold line pattern.

Abstract: A CODEC has a DSP which can consecutively execute a plurality of algorithms without restriction of a memory capacity. The DSP performs an encoding/decoding operation on a digital signal. A program memory stores a program divided into a plurality of block programs, the program being stored on an individual block program basis. A data memory stores a set of data used for executing each block program stored in the program memory, the set of data being divided into a plurality of data blocks and stored on an individual data block basis. A program executing unit executes each block program stored in the program memory by using a corresponding data block stored in the data memory. A program changing unit obtains a new block program from an external device each time execution of one of the block programs by the program executing unit is completed so as to store the obtained new block program in the program memory.

Abstract: A multi-point conference system includes a plurality of conference terminal devices coupled to each other, image information and voice information being transmitted among the plurality of conference terminal devices so that users of the plurality of conference terminal devices are in conference with each other. A coding process unit of a transmission side conference terminal device codes image information by switching an intra-frame coding operation and an interframe coding operation and transmit coded image information when the each of the plurality of terminal devices is specified by a speaker specifying information item. The coding process unit of the transmission side conference terminal device which is specified again by a speaker identifying information item codes image information by an interframe coding operation starting from a head frame.

Abstract: There are disclosed a radiocommunication apparatus and a radiocommunication system. There are provided a receiving section capable of receiving a plurality of types of signals which have been spread through use of different spread code information according to a CDMA scheme in a transmitting-side radiocommunication apparatuses; and a spread demodulation section which carries out despread processing for the common signal portions of the plurality of types of signals received by the receiving section through use of a composite spread code formed from a plurality of spread codes. Accordingly, it becomes possible to significantly improve the quality of received signals.

Abstract: A transmitting device cyclically distributes a plurality of cells to a plurality of lines in a predetermined order. The transmitting unit loads the same cell block number into the cells to be distributed to the lines in the same cycle, and transmits the cells to the lines. A receiving device, whenever receiving the cells from the transmitting device via the lines, arranges the cells into which the same cell block number is loaded in the predetermined order.

Abstract: In a method of executing OAM processing in a plural-line terminating apparatus, a physical layer terminator converts a line signal to cells and adds a line identifier onto each cell header, the identifier specifying the line on which the cell arrived. A header converter converts a line-identifier/VPI/VCI of each cell to an identifier ICID for internal processing. An OAM processor unitarily manages data, which is necessary for OAM processing of each line, by a connection management table using the internal-processing identifier as an address, reads data from the management table based upon the ICID of the cells received from each of the lines, and executes OAM processing conforming to each line using the data that has been read.

Abstract: A CATV transmission center apparatus, a subscriber terminal device, a CATV distribution system, and a method of distributing a program, will solve the problems of the need to change transmission facilities for handling more channels, the costly CATV infrastructure per program, the expensive subscriber terminal devices, and the tedious and time-consuming process of selecting desired programs. When there is a request to view a program which is not being distributed from the subscriber terminal device to the CATV transmission center apparatus, an empty channel is searched for. If an empty channel is found, the requested program is distributed via the empty channel. All subscriber terminal devices are notified that the program which has started to be distributed is being distributed. The CATV transmission center apparatus distributes only those programs which are actually viewed by subscribers.

Abstract: A regulating device (1) for controlling the delivery flow in a motor-fuel injection pump is provided with a pump cylinder (2), a pump piston (3) with longitudinal groove and control edge, a piston foot (4) and an adjusting sleeve (5), the piston foot (4) being accommodated in the adjusting sleeve (5) in such a way that it is freely movable in axial direction. The adjusting sleeve (5) has an elongated thin-walled tubular profile (6), a regulating turning-lever plate (7) joined to the tubular profile (6), and a regulating turning lever (8).

Abstract: An appliance to enhance the rate of removal of solutes during a peritoneal dialysis treatment of a subject, includes a holder to be applied to the subject, and a vibrator device, preferably two such devices, carried by the holder at a location to engage the front side of the subject's abdomen and to apply mechanical vibrations thereto at a frequency of 1-15 Hz, and an amplitude of 1-20 mm, particularly surprising results having been obtained at a frequency of 2-6 Hz, and an amplitude of 5-10 mm.