Abstract: In a rolling method applied to a multi-roll strip rolling mill composed of not less than four rolls, one of the zero point of the roll positioning devices and the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill or alternatively both the zero point of the roll positioning devices and the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill are found from a measured value of the thrust counterforces in the axial direction of the roll acting on at least all the rolls except for the backup rolls in the kiss-roll tightening state and also from a measured value of the roll forces of the backup roll acting on the backup roll chocks of the top and the bottom backup roll in the vertival direction. According to the thus obtained zero point of the roll positioning devices or the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill, the setting and control of the roll forces is executed when rolling is carried out.

Abstract: A suspension insulator having a shed including an upper surface and an under surface has a pin fitting arranged at its center portion and projected from the under surface and a plurality of circular ribs arranged around the pin fitting in a concentric manner. In a first aspect of the invention, a resistance zone having a surface resistance (1 cm×1 cm) of not greater than 4 M&OHgr; and arranged on the under surface at an inner portion continuing from the pin fitting and a conductive zone arranged on the under surface at an outer peripheral portion of the resistance zone. In a second aspect of the invention, a resistance zone arranged on the under surface at an inner portion continuing from the pin fitting and existing between the pin fitting and an inner root portion of the rib.

Abstract: In a rolling method applied to a multi-roll strip rolling mill composed of not less than four rolls, one of the zero point of the roll positioning devices and the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill or alternatively both the zero point of the roll positioning devices and the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill are found from a measured value of the thrust counterforces in the axial direction of the roll acting on at least all the rolls except for the backup rolls in the kiss-roll tightening state and also from a measured value of the roll forces of the backup roll acting on the backup roll chocks of the top and the bottom backup roll in the vertival direction. According to the thus obtained zero point of the roll positioning devices or the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill, the setting and control of the roll forces is executed when rolling is carried out.

Abstract: A suspension insulator having a shed including an upper surface and an under surface has a pin fitting arranged at its center portion and projected from the under surface and a plurality of circular ribs arranged around the pin fitting in a concentric manner. In a first aspect of the invention, a resistance zone having a surface resistance (1 cm×1 cm) of not greater than 4 M&OHgr; and arranged on the under surface at an inner portion continuing from the pin fitting and a conductive zone arranged on the under surface at an outer peripheral portion of the resistance zone. In a second aspect of the invention, a resistance zone arranged on the under surface at an inner portion continuing from the pin fitting and existing between the pin fitting and an inner root portion of the rib.

Abstract: In a rolling method applied to a multi-roll strip rolling mill composed of not less than four rolls, one of the zero point of the roll positioning devices and the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill or alternatively both the zero point of the roll positioning devices and the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill are found from a measured value of the thrust counterforces in the axial direction of the roll acting on at least all the rolls except for the backup rolls in the kiss-roll tightening state and also from a measured value of the roll forces of the backup roll acting on the backup roll chocks of the top and the bottom backup roll in the vertival direction. According to the thus obtained zero point of the roll positioning devices or the deformation characteristic of the strip rolling mill, the setting and control of the roll forces is executed when rolling is carried out.

Abstract: A treatment instrument includes a first coil and a second coil that is different from said first coil. The first and second coils are connected to each other. An operation wire is inserted in the first and second coils, and a tip end of the wire is connected to a treatment device. Upon movement of the wire, the treatment device operates. A method of manufacturing such a treatment instrument includes inserting one end of the first coil and one end of the second coil in a connection pipe from opposite ends thereof, exposing both ends of the connection pipe and corresponding portions of the first and second coils. The portions exposed to the arc columns are melted and connected.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a tandem cold rolling method conducted by a tandem cold rolling mill, the number of rolling stands of which is not less than 4, wherein a rolling tension, the intensity of which is not lower than 30%, preferably not lower than 40% of the deformation resistance of material to be rolled, is given at least by the final rolling stand. The present invention is also to provide a tandem cold rolling mill satisfying the inequality of JC≧(0.375{overscore (h)}+0.275)JM, wherein the average thickness of a product sheet on the delivery side of the final rolling mill is {overscore (h)}, and an output of one coiler arranged on the delivery side of the tandem cold rolling mill, or a sum of an output of one coiler on the delivery side and an output of the bridle roller on the delivery side is JC, and an output of the main motor of the final rolling stand of the tandem cold rolling mill is JM.

Abstract: A hot strip rolling mill comprises a strip front-end arresting device arranged between the finishing mill and the down-coiler, and the strip front-end arresting device holds a front-end of the strip and moves from an exit of the finishing mill to the down-coiler at high speed while it gives a tension to the strip. Pinch rollers and cooling water spraying devices composing the strip cooling line are capable of moving in the upper and the lower direction with respect to the strip surface in accordance with the movement of the strip front-end arresting device. Further, the hot strip rolling mill comprises an auxiliary drive device for giving an initial acceleration to the strip front-end arresting device, and/or a strip edge portion holding device for easily transferring the front-end of the hot strip from the strip front-end arresting device to the down-coiler.

Abstract: A casting C obtained by solidification of molten metal by using a pair of water cooled casting rolls 2a, 2b is subjected to temperature adjustment in a temperature zone so that an austenite structure exists in its matrix. Thereafter, the casting is rolled by an in-line rolling mill 5 at a temperature ranging from 850.degree. C. to less than 1,350.degree. C. and at a reduction of 5 to 50%. In this way, overall variance of elongation of the steel material is kept within 5% in terms of the standard deviation.

Abstract: A control method of strip travel for ensuring, in a tandem rolling operation for metal strips, stable positioning of rolled work during the rolling process including the rolling of the leading and trailing ends of the work, and a tandem rolling mill in which the method is used are disclosed.

Abstract: A rolling mill for flat products characterized by a roll assembly including a pair of work-rolls confronted reciprocally, and support-rolls divided by not less than three partitions in a roll axiswise direction which are provided, independently, with load detector equipment; crown and flatness of the products can be estimated precisely and regulated without delay using the rolling mill.

Abstract: A novel cinnoline derivative having an antagonistic activity against serotonin 5-HT.sub.3 receptor, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, its N-oxide derivatives or solvates thereof, and pharmaceutical formulations containing the same for the prevention and/or treatment of various disorders such as nausea and/or emesis caused by anticancer drugs or X-ray treatment, central nervous disorders such as anxiety and/or neuropathy, gastroenteric diseases such as indigestion, chronic gastritis, digestive ulcer, irritable bowel syndromes and the like, hemicrania, cluster headache, trigeminal neuralgia, arrhythmia and the like.

Abstract: A novel cinnoline derivative having an antagonistic activity against serotonin 5-HT.sub.3 receptor, its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, its N-oxide derivatives or solvates thereof, and pharmaceutical formulations containing the same for the prevention and/or treatment of various disorders such as nausea and/or emesis caused by anticancer drugs or X-ray treatment, central nervous disorders such as anxiety and/or neuropathy, gastroenteric diseases such as indigestion, chronic gastritis, digestive ulcer, irritable bowel syndromes and the like, hemicrania, cluster headache, trigeminal neuralgia, arrhythmia and the like.

Abstract: The thieno[3.2-b]pyridine derivative of the present invention promote the gastric emptying in male ddy mice and the gastric contraction in dogs sutured with a strain-gauge transducer. It is believed that the derivatives have the action to enhance gastric motor action and gastric emptying. Therefore, the compound of the present invention are effective for the prevention and therapeutical treatment of the symptoms caused by gastric hypanakinesis, such as heartburn, abdominal distension feeling, anorexia, unpleasant feeling on upper abdomen, abdominalgia, nausea, vomiting, etc. caused by the underlying diseases such as acute and chronic gastritis, stomach and duodenum ulcer, gastroneurosis, gastroptosis, etc. The present invention also encompasses a pharmaceutical composition containing as the effective ingredient a compound of the present invention, and a method for producing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the producing coldrolled strips and sheets of austenitic stainless steel, which comprises preparing a cast strip having a thickness not larger than 10 mm, which is composed of an austenitic stainless steel, by a continuous casting machine, in which the wall surface of a casting mold moves synchronously with the cast strip, and cold rolling the cast strip by a hard rolls having a surface hardness not lower than the Vickers hardness of 600. A preferred embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that crystal grains of the cast strip are made finer by cooling the cast strip at a cooling rate of at least 50.degree. C./sec in the temperature range of from the temperature for initiation of solidification of the cast strip to 1200.degree. C. and the cast strip is then coldrolled by the hard rolls, another preferred embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that the hard rolls are composed of a material having a Young's modulus of at least 30000 kgf/mm.sup.

Abstract: A control device for a twin-roll continuous caster, comprising a plurality of maps, each of which teaches a relationship between a thickness of a cast strip and a roll separating force under a fixed casting speed, and teaches stable casting conditions under which bulging and surface cracks do not occur. The device detects a cast thickness and a height of the molten pool and selects an appropriate map from among the plurality of maps, by the detected height, and controls the casting conditions such that a target thickness of the cast strip is obtained under stable casting conditions by using the selected map.

Abstract: A shredded tobacco leaf pellet is composed of tobacco leaf shreds bound together with a nicotine-non-absorptive thermoplastic binder while retaining air permeability. The pellet is produced by mixing tobacco leaf shreds and a nicotine-non-absorptive thermoplastic binder, forming the resultant mixture into a desired shape while retaining air permeability, and then subjecting the thus-formed mixture to a heat treatment. A cigarette-like snuff is composed of at least one shredded tobacco leaf pellet of the above-described type and an outer envelope surrounding the pellet therein.

Abstract: A novel technique suitable for inspection or examination of the surface condition of a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. First is one irradiates a light e.g. a laser beam on a substrate surface to focus a scattered light therefrom. Next detects the scattered light focused e.g. with a photomultiplier tube, thus to inspect the substrate surface. When the detection of the scattered light is thus carried out, correction means e.g. a circuit for controlling a voltage applied to the photomultiplier tube, a filter having a variable light-screening factor, a movable iris or an amplification factor adjustment circuit etc. is used to correct the detection sensitivity in accordance with the reflectivity of the substrate surface. Practically, such a corrective operation is carried out on the basis of the intensity of a scattered light or a regularly reflected light from the substrate surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for scanning a laser beam to examine the surface of a semiconductor wafer comprises a stage onto which a semiconductor wafer is mounted and a laser beam scanning unit for repeatedly rectilinearly scanning a laser beam in a predetermined direction on the semiconductor wafer. This scanning apparatus further has a drive unit for rotating the semiconductor wafer and for moving the semiconductor wafer by only a predetermined distance in the predetermined direction every rotation of the wafer. The laser beam scanning unit rectilinearly scans the laser beam at a swing width of a predetermined amount.

Abstract: The holding mechanism holds an object under inspection in a manner that the substantially entire surface of the object may relatively be scanned by a laser beam. A spherical integrating light collector has an opening disposed close to the inspected surface of the object held by the holding mechanism. A laser beam illuminating mechanism is coupled with the other end of the spherical integrating light collector, and illuminates the inspected surface of the object with the laser beam through the opening. A photo-electric converter receives the scattered light as is reflected by the inspected surface and collected by the spherical integrating light collector, and converts the scattered light into an electrical signal representing an amount of light. An analog to digital converter converts the electrical signal derived from the photo-electric converter into a digital signal. A peak detector receives the digital signal derived from the analog to digital converter to detect peak values at predetermined periods.