Abstract: A curl straightening device for removing a curl from a paper sheet which is caused during printing by a printer. The curl straightening device includes a supporting platen which supports a curled paper sheet after printing is performed on a first surface of the paper sheet, a carriage which is reciprocatingly movable along the supporting platen, and a pressing member, mounted on the carriage and positioned on an opposite side of the paper sheet from the platen. The pressing member presses against a second surface of the paper sheet as the carriage moves along the platen so as to remove the curl from the paper sheet which is caused by printing on the first surface of the paper sheet.

Abstract: A transfer drum of an image forming apparatus has a setting section at which an image receiving material is set on the transfer drum and an image forming material bearing an image is superimposed on the image receiving material. The image forming apparatus further includes a cooling device for cooling the setting section of the transfer drum.

Abstract: A medical pressure-sensitive adhesive and a medical bandage formed using the same are disclosed. The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive comprises an acrylic polymer and a specific liquid or pasty component which is in a liquid state or pasty state at room temparature and is compatible with the acrylic polymer. The medical pressure-sensitive adhesive is suitable for use as a plaster, a pressure-sensitive dressing, a poultice and the like.

Abstract: A computer system has a plurality of processors, each having a local memory. An expression is represented by operands and operations and is expressed in a form of a tree. The operands are assigned to leaf nodes of the tree and the operations are assigned to interior nodes. Processors which store an operand represented by a leaf node are assigned to the leaf node. The tree is traced in a bottom-up fashion to determine a set of candidate processors to be assigned to each of the interior nodes. The candidate processors are determined from processors which are assigned to children nodes of each interior node in accordance with a majority method. The majority method is based on a rule that a processor which is most frequently assigned to the children nodes of an interior node is determined as a candidate processor. A root processor is assigned to a root node of the interior nodes from the candidate processors.

Abstract: The surface roughness of the rolling surface 2 of the roller 1 along both the axial and circumferential direction is 0.06 .mu.m RA or less, while the surface roughness of the opposing inner ring raceway 4 is 0.08 to 0.15 .mu.m Ra along the axial direction, and 0.04 or less along the circumferential direction, whereby the heat generated by the roller bearing is kept to a minimum, and the danger of burning of the roller bearing is reduced.

Abstract: A medical water-absorptive polymer, a dressing for wound using the polymer and a medical bandage using the polymer are disclosed. The medical water-absorptive polymer comprising a medical water-absorptive polymer comprising an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an acrylic composition comprising from 60 to 80% by weight of an alkoxyalkyl acrylate, from 20 to 40% by weight of an N-vinyllactam, and 10% by weight or less of a vinylcarboxylic acid.

Abstract: A dressing comprising a backing and an adhesive layer, wherein the backing is moisture-permeable and the adhesive layer comprises an adhesive composition comprising a rubber-based adhesive, a polymer having a water-absorbing property and/or a water-swelling property, and a metal oxide and/or a metal salt, the polymer having the water-absorbing property and/or the water-swelling property being a polymer containing a functional group having an ability to form a salt and/or coordination compound.

Abstract: Amine derivatives having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## wherein Q is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen atom, and ##STR3## wherein Q is as above; Y is selected from the group consisting of ##STR4## R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.5 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, nitro group or hydroxy group; R.sup.5 is attached to an arbitrary position of X, and R.sup.3 or R.sup.4 is attached to an arbitrary position of Y.The amine derivatives (I) are useful as fungicides.

Abstract: In a network termination connected to an exchanger and a plurality of terminal adaptors, and enabling relief of call congestion in an exchanger, the network termination includes: a reception port for receiving a reduction rate indicated by a congestion information area in a SDH frame input from the exchanger; a SDH frame transmission unit for transferring the SDH frame including a plurality of ATM cells, each ATM cell having a header field and an information field, and the header field having a busy bit field; an unusable cell preparation unit operatively connected to the SDH frame transmission unit for generating the ATM cell train including the unusable cells defined based on the reduction rate from the exchanger; and a transmission port operatively connected to the unusable cell preparation unit for transferring the ATM cell train including the unusable cells to the end terminals.

Abstract: Amine derivatives having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## wherein Q is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen atom, and ##STR3## wherein Q is as above; Y is selected from the group consisting of ##STR4## R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.5 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, nitro group or hydroxy group; R.sup.5 is attached to an arbitrary position of X, and R.sup.3 or R.sup.4 is attached to an arbitrary position of Y.The main derivatives (I) are useful as fungicides.

Abstract: Amine derivatives having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## Y is selected from the group consisting of ##STR3## R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.5 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, nitro group or hydroxy group; R.sup.5 is attached to an arbitrary position of X, and R.sup.3 or R.sup.4 is attached to an arbitrary position of Y.The amine derivatives (I) are useful as fungicides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink ribbon winding mechanism for a printer which prints with an ink ribbon. It is constructed by disposing a ribbon winding gear, which is connected with an ink ribbon winding shaft through a slipping mechanism, and a detection driving gear for detecting markers for color identification for a color ink ribbon, which is connected directly with the winding shaft, and by locating a transmission gear for transmitting the driving force of a driving source selectively to these two gears between the driving source driving the ink ribbon winding shaft and the winding gear as well as the detection driving gear. The marker for color identification are detected correctly by directly transmitting the driving force from the driving source to the ribbon winding shaft at the detetion of the markers in the color ink ribbon.

Abstract: A pyridine-N-oxide derivative of the formula: ##STR1## or a salt thereof.

Abstract: A thermal printer which always performs a satisfactory printing operation regardless of whether a ribbon cassette mounted for printing houses an ink ribbon for hot release mode printing or an ink ribbon for cold release mode printing. Hot release mode printing is satisfactory for printing normal printing papers, while cold release mode printing is satisfactory for printing OHP (overhead projection) papers. The printer is capable of sensing the difference between ribbon cassette having an ink ribbon for hot release mode printing and a ribbon cassette having an ink ribbon for cold release mode printing, when mounted on the printer for printing. The printer upon sensing the type of ribbon cassette mounted, then adjusts its components, if necessary, so that they are configured in locations appropriate to perform satisfactory printing according to the type of ink ribbon housed in the ribbon cassette mounted.

Abstract: Amine derivatives having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## wherein Q is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen atom, and ##STR3## wherein Q is as above; Y is selected from the group consisting of ##STR4## R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.5 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, nitro group or hydroxy group; R.sup.5 is attached to an arbitrary position of X, and R.sup.3 or R.sup.4 is attached to an arbitrary position of Y.The amine derivatives (I) are useful as fungicides.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a small-sized photographic material processing unit of a simple structure capable of developing both disk film and roll film simultaneously or selectively. In order to attain this object, the present invention is characterized in that in the photographic material processing unit adopted to process the photographic material by allowing it pass through a processing tank containing a processing solution, the disk film and/or foll film are passed through the same processing tank while they are held by a carrier.

Abstract: A head connection structure of a printer including a carriage with a flexible circuit sheet and a thermal head with another mating circuit sheet, comprises a cap board positioned detachably on the carriage and a positioning guide pin provided on the carriage. Both circuit sheets are held by and between the cap board and the carriage with the circuit sheet of the thermal head being positioned accurately by the guide pin.

Abstract: A thermal printer having a reciprocable carriage on which a thermal head is carried. The printer further includes a toothed rack and a driving plate both of which are rotatably held to a shaft. The rack acts to rotate the thermal head toward and away from a recording sheet. The driving plate has a protrusion for rotating the rack in one direction. A pin protruding from the driving plate on opposite side to the rack is fitted in a grooved cam, which serves to rotate the driving plate. A tension spring is mounted between the rack and the driving plate to cause the protrusion of the driving plate to angularly bias the rack in one direction so that the force of the tension spring urges the head toward the recording sheet.

Abstract: A thermal printer having a reciprocable carriage on which a thermal head is carried. The printer further includes a rotatable gear for winding print tape, a toothed rack that can move toward and away from the winding gear, and a driving plate for reciprocating the rack in association with the rotation of the carriage. When characters are to be printed, the carriage is rotated to the platen, and the teeth of the rack are brought into mesh with the winding gear. When no characters are printed, the carriage is angularly moved away from the platen, and the teeth of the rack are disengaged from the winding gear.

Abstract: Amine derivatives having the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## Y is selected from the group consisting of ##STR3## R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.2 is hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.3 is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group or a halogen atom; R.sup.5 is hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, nitro group or hydroxy group; R.sup.5 is attached to an arbitrary position of X, and R.sup.3 or R.sup.4 is attached to an arbitrary position of Y.The amine derivatives (I) are useful as fungicides.