Abstract: A camera has a lens system changeable as to focal length, which is driven by a driving device so as to change the focal length thereof. The driving mechanism includes a first shifting mechanism for shifting one lens of the lens system stepwise to predetermined positions in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens system and a second shifting mechanism for shifting another lens of the lens system stepwise with respect to the one lens in that same direction, thereby changing the focal length of the lens system.

Abstract: An electronic copying machine has an image line sensor whose charge storage time is controlled individually for each line of the image such that the charge storage time for the next line is determined according to the average detected brightness of the line immediately preceding that next line, based on the image signals thereof.

Abstract: A device for activating shutter blades relative to a shutter opening and utilizing a control signal from an electronic circuit includes an electric motor rotatable clockwise and counterclockwise according to a control signal from the electronic circuit, a gear driven by the motor, the gear being located on one side of the shutter opening, fixed pivot axes located on an opposite side of the shutter opening, and a shutter operable device comprising shutter blades pivotable about the fixed pivot axes, the shutter operable device having gear teeth meshing with the gear such that the gear is operable to pivot the shutter blades clockwise and counterclockwise about fixed pivot axes to open and close the shutter opening.

Abstract: An antibacterial cephalosporin hydroxamic acid derivative represented by the following formula (I), processes for its preparation, compositions containing the same as an active ingredient, and a method for killing bacteria by contacting with said compound. ##STR1## (wherein, R is acyl; R.sup.1 is hydrogen or methoxy; R.sup.2 is alkylene; R.sup.3 is hydrogen, aliphatic group or a hydroxy-protecting group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen or amino-protecting group; R.sup.5 is hydrogen, light metal atom or carboxy-protecting group; and X is oxygen, sulfur, or sulfinyl).

Abstract: An antibacterial cephalosporin hydroxamic acid derivative represented by the following formula (I), processes for its preparation, compositions containing the same as an active ingredient, and a method for killing bacteria by contacting with said compound. ##STR1## (wherein, R is acyl; R.sup.1 is hydrogen or methoxy; R.sup.2 is alkylene; R.sup.3 is hydrogen, aliphatic group or a hydroxy-protecting group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen or amino-protecting group; R.sup.5 is hydrogen, light metal atom or carboxy-protecting group; and X is oxygen, sulfur, or sulfinyl).

Abstract: Intermediates of the following formula are useful for the synthesis of 1-oxacephalosporins. Their preparation from penicillins and the transformation process to make 1-oxacephalosporins are disclosed. The compounds are of the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is amino or a selected acylamino;COB is carboxy or a selected protected-carboxy;X is halogen or the group ORin which R is a group represented by following formulas: ##STR2## wherein Nu is a selected nucleophilic group; R.sup.1 is a group of the following formula: ##STR3## in which Hal is halogen or alkylsulfonyloxy and R.sup.2 is alkyl or aryl; andY is hydrogen or methoxy; with the proviso that when R is propargyl or 2-oxopropyl andR.sup.1 is ##STR4## A is in the 3.alpha.-configuration and Y is 3.beta.-hydrogen or A is in the 3.beta.-configuration and Y is 3.alpha.-methoxy.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein u represents hydrogen, carboxamido, N-hydroxycarboxamido, carboxy, azido, an aryl, an acylamino, a protected carboxy or an N-alkoxycarboxamido, or, together with v, can represent --S-- or --CH.sub.2 S--; v represents hydrogen, halogen, cyano or an alkylthio, or, together with u, can represent --S-- or --CH.sub.2 S--, or, together with w, can represent --(CH.sub.2).sub.3 CO--; w represents hydrogen, carboamoyl, cyano, carboxy, an N-alkylcarbamoyl, an alkyl, an aryl, a protected carboxy or a heterocycle, or, together with v, can represents --(CH.sub.2).sub.

Abstract: A phosphine sulfide derivative is chlorinated and hydrolyzed with little pollution problem to give the corresponding phosphine oxide derivative.

Abstract: By heating an N-(2-hydroxyethyl)dithiocarbamate ester protected at its hydroxy group as an ether in the presence of an azide, the corresponding 1-(protected hydroxyethyl)-1H-tetrazole-5-thiol is obtained, and then, if required, deprotecting the etheric protection to give an industrially useful chemical, 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1H-tetrazole-5-thiol.

Abstract: Compounds represented by the following formula prepared from 6-aminopenicillanic acid are key intermediates in a stereo-specific synthesis of 1-oxadethiacephalosporins, highly active antibiotics: ##STR1## [wherein COA and COB each is carboxy or protected carboxy;Cox is carboxy, protected carboxy, or a group of the formula --COCQ.dbd.N.sub.2 or --COCHQ--Z (in which Q is hydrogen, lower alkyl or aryl; and Z is hydrogen or a nucleophilic group);Hal is halogen;R is lower alkyl or aralkyl; andY is hydrogen or acyl].

Abstract: Potent antibacterial cephalosporin analogues of the following formula in forms of free acids, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, or esters preparable from penicillins through azetidinone derivatives by way of a new process, and utilizable as active ingredients in bactericidal compositions for pharmaceutical and veterinary use: ##STR1## (wherein Acyl is selected from phenylacetyl, D-mandeloyl, .alpha.-phenylmalonyl, D-.alpha.-(3-methanesulfonyl-2-oxoimidazolidin-l-yl)carbonamido-.alpha.-ph enylacetyl, and 2-thienylacetyl).