Abstract: A device is easily exchanged without changing a program of a controller. A device communication management unit generates digital input data that stores only ON/OFF information of a device in accordance with a copy setting information table set by a user.

Abstract: A device is easily exchanged without changing a program of a controller. A device communication management unit generates digital input data that stores only ON/OFF information of a device in accordance with a copy setting information table set by a user.

Abstract: A communication system is formed with a master unit having a communication function and at least one slave unit also having a communication function connected by a network including a bus. Repeater units are inserted on the network between the master unit and the slave unit in one or more stages. As the master unit transmits request frames downstream through the network to the slave unit, the slave unit control the timing of transmitting the response frames in response successively such that the master unit receives the response frames without waiting in between regardless of repeater delay times of each of the returned response frames determined by the number of stages of the repeater units. Each communication frame that is transmitted through the network contains identification data indicative of its type and each repeater unit serves to repeat certain types of received frames only in the upstream direction.

Abstract: A communication system is formed with a master unit having a communication function and at least one slave unit also having a communication function connected by a network including a bus. Repeater units are inserted on the network between the master unit and the slave unit in one or more stages. As the master unit transmits request frames downstream through the network to the slave unit, the slave unit control the timing of transmitting the response frames in response successively such that the master unit receives the response frames without waiting in between regardless of repeater delay times of each of the returned response frames determined by the number of stages of the repeater units. Each communication frame that is transmitted through the network contains identification data indicative of its type and each repeater unit serves to repeat certain types of received frames only in the upstream direction.

Abstract: An ethylene-acrylic copolymer rubber composition, which comprises (A) a carboxyl group-containing ethylene-acrylic copolymer rubber, (B) at least one monoamine compound selected from the group consisting of a primary amine, a secondary amine and a tertiary amine, (C) a guanidine type compound, and (D) at least one of an aromatic diamine compound expressed by the following structural formula (1), H2N—Ph-M-Ph—NH2: ??structural formula (1) wherein M is O, S, SO2, CONH, or O—R—O in which R is Ph, Ph—Ph, Ph—SO2—Ph, (CH2)m, (CH2)C(CH3)2(CH2), or Ph—C(CX3)2—Ph, and m=3–5, X=H or F and Ph=benzene ring.

Abstract: A method for producing a carboxyl group-containing rubber having good vulcanization characteristics and exhibiting good resistance to scorching, continuously and in good yield. A method for producing a dry rubber from a polyvinyl alcohol-containing latex of a carboxyl group-containing rubber by continuously carrying out coagulation, dewatering, washing and drying in a dewatering/drying apparatus of a screw extruder type, characterized in that a coagulating agent containing ammonium borate is used.

Abstract: An ethylene-acrylic copolymer rubber composition, which comprises (A) a carboxyl group-containing ethylene-acrylic copolymer rubber, (B) at least one monoamine compound selected from the group consisting of a primary amine, a secondary amine and a tertiary amine, (C) a guanidine type compound, and (D) at least one of an aromatic diamine compound expressed by the following structural formula (1),

Abstract: A method for producing a carboxyl group-containing rubber having good vulcanization characteristics and exhibiting good resistance to scorching, continuously and in good yield.

Abstract: An acrylic rubber comprising at least 0.1 and less than 3 wt % of monomer units of ethylene, from 0 to 10 wt % of monomer units of a cross-linkable monomer, and more than 87 and not more than 99.9 wt % of monomer units of at least one alkyl acrylate.

Abstract: A copolymer comprising monomer units of the following chemical formulas (1) and (2), wherein the total number of these monomer units is from 10 to 5,000: ##STR1## wherein R in the formula (2) is a C.sub.1-16 alkyl group, a C.sub.2-16 alkoxyalkyl group, a haloalkyl group, a cyanoalkyl group, an allylalkyl group, a cyclohexyl group, or a phenyl group.

Abstract: A method for producing a polychloroprene latex, which comprises copolymerizing chloroprene and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid in the presence of a polyvinyl alcohol, wherein a glycol ether is also present during the copolymerization.

Abstract: A method for producing a polychloroprene latex, which comprises copolymerizing chloroprene and an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid in the presence of a polyvinyl alcohol, wherein a glycol ether is also present during the copolymerization.

Abstract: A chloroprene polymer composition containing an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylate polymer having a number average molecular weight of at least 300,000.

Abstract: A chloroprene polymer composition containing an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated carboxylate polymer having a number average molecular weight of at least 300,000.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for image formation which is free from the problems such as uneven development and pepper fog and can give photographic characteristics of extremely high contrast negative tone using a stable developer and which comprises developing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material in the presence of a compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group of 1-8 carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl group having 4-8 carbon atoms in the ring, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may be identical or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group with a proviso that they cannot be simultaneously hydrogen atoms, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may link to each other to form a ring structure, and at least one hydroxy group is present in the substituents R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for image formation which comprises developing a silver halide photographic photosensitive material in the presence of a compound represented by the following formula [I] or [II]: ##STR1## wherein Ar represents an aryl group, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 which may be identical or different each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, with a proviso that they cannot be simultaneously hydrogen atoms, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may link to each other to form a ring, and at least one of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 has at least one hydroxyl group as a substituent, ##STR2## wherein Ar.sub.1 and Ar.sub.2 each represents a divalent aromatic group, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, R.sub. and R.sub.2 may link to each other to form a ring and R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic spectral sensitizing dye represented by the following formula (I), (II) or (III): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.5 or R.sub.7 each represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group, R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 each represents an alkyl group, aralkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group, L.sub.1 -L.sub.22 each represents a methine group, Z.sub.1 -Z.sub.4 each represents a group of atoms necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, X.sub.1.sup.- and X.sub.2.sup.- each represents an acid anion and l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t and u each represents an integer of 1 or 2.Silver halide photographic emulsion containing the above sensitizing dye is also disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided a high speed and high contrast direct positive silver halide photographic emulsion which is free of discoloration by containing therein a dimethine dye having an indolenine ring which contains a cyano group as a substituent.

Abstract: A rubbery polymer composition comprises a crosslinked copolymer comprising the following components.Type I15 to 40 wt. parts of a vinyl carboxylate having the formula (I);60 to 85 wt. parts of an alkoxyalkyl acrylate having the formula (II);0 to 15 wt. parts of ethylene; (100 wt. parts of a total of said three components);0 to 5 wt. parts of the components having the formula (III), (IV) or (V):Type II15 to 55 wt. parts of a vinyl carboxylate having the formula (I);5 to 20 wt. parts of ethylene; an alkyl acrylate having the formula (II');an alkoxyalkyl acrylate having the formula (II) (100 wt. parts of a total of said four components and more than 0.8 of a ratio of the alkoxyalkyl acrylate (II) to the alkyl acrylate (II') by weight);0 to 5 wt. parts of the components having the formula (III), (IV) or (V):RCOO--CH.dbd.CH.sub.2 (I)wherein R represents a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group.CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHCOO--R.sub.1 --O--R.sub.2 (II)wherein R.sub.1 represents a C.sub.1-4 alkylene group; andR.sub.2 represents a C.sub.

Abstract: A rubbery polymer composition comprises a crosslinked copolymer comprising the following components.Type I15 to 40 wt. parts of a vinyl carboxylate having the formula (I); 60 to 85 wt. parts of an alkoxyalkyl acrylate having the formula (II); 0 to 15 wt. parts of ethylene; (100 wt. parts of a total of said three components); 0 to 5 wt. parts of the components having the formula (III), (IV) or (V):Type II15 to 55 wt. parts of a vinyl carboxylate having the formula (I); 5 to 20 wt. parts of ethylene; an alkyl acrylate having the formula (II'); an alkoxyalkyl acrylate having the formula (II) (100 wt. parts of a total of said four components and more than 0.8 of a ratio of the alkoxyalkyl acrylate (II) to the alkyl acrylate (II') by weight); 0 to 5 wt. parts of the components having the formula (III), (IV) or (V):(I): RCOO--CH.dbd.CH.sub.2wherein R represents a C.sub.1-4 alkyl group.(II): CH.sub.2 .dbd.CHCOO--R.sub.1 --O--R.sub.2wherein R.sub.1 represents a C.sub.1-4 alkylene group; and R.sub.2 represents a C.