Abstract: According to an embodiment, a voice recognition device includes a voice trigger detection unit that detects a keyword from a voice signal, and a similar keyword identification unit that calculates a degree of priority of the keyword depending on a time when the keyword is detected and a similarity between the voice signal and the keyword and outputs an identification code that corresponds to the keyword based on the degree of priority.

Abstract: A voice recognition device includes a voice input unit that receives input sounds and converts the input sounds into voice signals and a voice trigger detector to detect a keyword in a voice signal from the voice input unit. A similarity calculator is provided to compare the voice signal to a reference audio signal, calculate a similarity between the reference audio signal and the voice signal, and output a signal indicating the calculated similarity.

Abstract: A panel assembly includes an outer member and an inner member, which overlap each other and jointly have an edge that includes a distal end portion of the outer member and a distal end portion projecting from an end of the inner member. The distal end portions are fastened together by sheet metal seaming. Boundary regions of the inner member between the distal end portion, which is seamed, and the end, which is not seamed, have respective clearances defined in the end, and which are spaced away from a seaming range in which the distal end portions are seamed.

Abstract: A panel assembly includes an outer member and an inner member, which overlap each other and jointly have an edge that includes a distal end portion of the outer member and a distal end portion projecting from an end of the inner member. The distal end portions are fastened together by sheet metal seaming. Boundary regions of the inner member between the distal end portion, which is seamed, and the end, which is not seamed, have respective clearances defined in the end, and which are spaced away from a seaming range in which the distal end portions are seamed.

Abstract: A process for preparing 7-benzylpurine derivatives is provided. An acetylpurine nucleoside is reacted with a benzyl halide to benzylate the 7-position of the purine base, and an acid is then added to the reaction mixture to hydrolyze the glycoside bond. The 7-benzylpurines may be used to prepare 9-substituted purine derivatives.

Abstract: Purine derivatives in which a desired substituent is introduced into the 9-position only are synthesized by first introducing an easily-removable substituent in the 7-position of a purine base of natural purine nucleosides obtained through fermentation or derivatives thereof, then hydrolyzing the ribose moiety to form purine derivatives having the substituent in the 7-position, subsequently introducing the desired substituent in the 9-position, and then removing the substituent in the 7-position.

Abstract: 9-Substituted purine derivatives of formula (4) ##STR1## are prepared by debenzylating a compound of formula (3): ##STR2##

Abstract: A belt-shaped member cut into a predetermined length is fed from a feeding devices to a tire forming drum and is wound on its cylindrical peripheral surface. Center portions of the opposite ends of the belt-shaped member are pushed to be joined to each other and the side portions of at least one of the opposite ends of the belt-shaped member are held by upper and lower holding pawls. Such holding pawls are swung along an arcuate path so that both side portions of the opposite ends of the belt-shaped member are drawn near each other to abut against each other. The abutting end portions are pushed toward the peripheral surface of the drum by pushing devices for joining them together.

Abstract: A process for preparing 7-benzylpurine derivatives is provided. An acetylpurine nucleoside is reacted with a benzyl halide to benzylate the 7-position of the purine base, and an acid is then added to the reaction mixture to hydrolyze the glycoside bond. The 7-benzylpurines may be used to prepare 9-substituted purine derivatives.

Abstract: Purine derivatives in which a desired substituent is introduced into the 9-position only are synthesized by first introducing an easily-removable substituent in the 7-position of a purine base of natural purine nucleosides obtained through fermentation or derivatives thereof, then hydrolyzing the ribose moiety to form purine derivatives having the substituent in the 7-position, subsequently introducing the desired substituent in the 9-position, and then removing the substituent in the 7-position.

Abstract: A belt-shaped member cut into a predetermined length is fed from a feeding devices to a tire forming drum and is wound on its cylindrical peripheral surface. Center portions of the opposite ends of the belt-shaped member are pushed to be joined to each other and the side portions of at least one of the opposite ends of the belt-shaped member are held by upper and lower holding pawls. Such holding pawls are swung along an arcuate path so that both side portions of the opposite ends of the belt-shaped member are drawn near each other to abut against each other. The abutting end portions are pushed toward the peripheral surface of the drum by pushing devices for joining them together.

Abstract: A cake of glass fibers or the like has a waste yarn which is provided by winding a strand, which continues from an end yarn extending in contact with a winding tube, on the winding tube to cover the end yarn before a usual winding work for forming a cake on the winding cube. This cake can prevent filaments from being broken by rubbing of the strand in the innermost layer of the cake with the end yarn which is pulled into the cake when the end yarn is cut after the stand is completely wound on the winding tube.

Abstract: A tire building system comprises a band drum, a shaping drum, and a belt forming machine having two oscillating or rotating belt drums, in which the band drum and the shaping drum are arranged on the same axis in opposing relationship, a band transfer is disposed therebetween on the axis in such a manner as to reciprocate, the belt forming machine is arranged in parallel to the axis, and a belt transfer is disposed between the belt drum and the shaping drum in such a manner as to move in the axial direction and the direction normal to the axis.

Abstract: In a tire building apparatus comprising a band drum 1, a shaping drum 2, and a belt forming machine 101 having two belt drums 3 which can be oscillated or cyclically moved, the band drum 1 and the belt forming machine 101 are disposed on the same axis in opposing relationship, the shaping drum 2 is disposed so that it can be reciprocated between the position on the aforesaid axis and the standby position while maintaining the parallel condition with respect to the aforesaid axis, and a band transfer 4 and a belt transfer 5 are disposed so that they can be reciprocated along the aforesaid axis between the band drum 1 and the belt forming machine 101.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a tread pickup device which can pick up a tread on a truck reliably without manpower. The device comprises a plurality of short first forks for scooping up a front edge of the tread placed on the truck and holding the tread, long second forks which are arranged adjacent to the first forks and inserted throughout the total width of the tread, and a mechanism for raising and moving the first and second forks together with the tread.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a tread centering device which automatically detects the position of tread center and holds it in a straight form even when the center of tread is not positioned in a straight form. The device mainly comprises a plurality of detectors for detecting a groove for centering the tread, a holding plate which is inserted into the detected groove, and a mechanism which moves said holding plate transversely to align said groove in a straight form.

Abstract: A process for producing a copper-clad laminate, which comprises a step (S2) of forming a copper foil of at least several micrometers on a planar conductive substrate by electrolysis, a step (S3) of roughening the surface of the copper foil, a step (S4) of laminating the copper foil together with the conductive substrate on an insulating substrate and tightly integrating the assembly by applying pressure and heat, and a step (S5) of separating only the conductive substrate. A metal film may exist between the conductive substrate and the copper foil. When the metal film has a thickness of 0.1 to 3 .mu.m, only the conductive substrate is separated with the metal film being firmly adhered to the copper foil surface and, when the metal film has a thickness of 70 to 250 .mu.m, it is separated together with the conductive substrate after the lamination. The copper foil formed by high-speed plating under the conditions of 6 to 12.0 m/sec in solution contact speed and 0.8 to 4.0 A/cm.sup.

Abstract: A thin metal layer with a thickness of 1 to 5 .mu. is formed electrolytically (S2) on an electrically conductive single-plate substrate having a predetermined roughness, a resist mask is formed (S3) on the surface of the thin metal layer, and a conductor circuit is then electroformed thereon (S4) using copper. After the surface of the conductor circuit is roughened (S5), the conductor circuit, along with the single plate and the interposed thin metal layer, is stacked on an insulating substrate for lamination, and the individual layers are adhered integrally to one another by the application of heat and pressure (S7). Then, the single plate only is peeled off (S8), and the exposed thin metal layer is removed by etching (S9). The thin metal layer and the conductor circuit are electroplated under high-speed conditions including a solution contact speed of 2.6 to 20 m/sec and a current density of 0.15 to 4.0 A/cm.sup.

Abstract: A metal surface such as an endless strip of stainless steel is masked with a plating resist, leaving exposed areas to form a desired circuit pattern. The circuit pattern comprising a high density major layer and a roughened surface layer is formed by copper electroplating on the masked metal surface as same is made cathodic in a copper sulfate bath and successively held opposite to first and second insoluble anodes therein. In order to realize a high copper deposition rate, the electrolyte is caused to flow turbulently at an elevated temperature through the spacings between the metal surface and the first and second anodes. The completed circuit pattern has its roughened surface layer bonded to an adhesive-coated strip of insulating base and is separated from the metal surface. If desired, an adhesive-coated strip of overlay may then be bonded to the circuit pattern on the insulating base strip. The complete process can be automated.