Abstract: Heterocyclic substituted 2-acylamino-5-thiazoles, their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.A 2-Acylaminothiazole of formula: ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is H, an alkyl or a substituted alkyl; R.sub.IV is a cycloalkyl, an aromatic group such as phenyl or a heterocyclic group which are unsubstituted or substituted; R.sub.V is a substituted alkyl, a substituted carboxy such as an ester or an amide; or R.sub.IV and R.sub.V together represent a phenoxyalkylene group which may be substituted on the phenyl; and Z is a heterocyclic e.g. indolyl group; or a salt of compound (I).

Abstract: A method of operating a low boiling point liquid fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine (1) wherein the fuel is stored in a tank (17) and has a variable vapour pressure in the tank (17) dependent upon ambient temperature. The method comprises pumping the fuel to the fuel inlet rail (15) and injectors (8, 9, 10, 11) at an absolute pressure which is maintained at a constant differential above the variable vapour pressure in the tank (17), monitoring the absolute pressure of the fuel and varying the fuel injection pulse width dependent upon the absolute pressure of the fuel together with the other usual engine parameters. The method has particular application where the fuel is a liquified gas.

Abstract: An enzyme immunoassay for an antigen using a solid phase, which employs (a) a biotinylated antibody in which a biotin derivative is bound to a thiol group of an Fab' fragment of an antibody, (b) an enzyme-labelled antibody, and (c) a solid phase immobilized with a substance capable of specifically reacting with the above biotin derivative selected from the group consisting of avidin, streptoavidin and a derivative thereof which is bound to the solid phase directly or via a linkage between another biotin derivative and a high molecular weight substance bound to the solid phase, or alternatively employs (a') a solid phase immobilized with a biotinylated antibody via a substance selected from the group consisting of avidin, streptoavidin and a derivative thereof wherein said substance is bound to the biotin moiety of said biotinylated antibody and is also bound to the solid phase directly or via a linkage between another biotin derivative and a high molecular weight substance bound to the solid phase, and (b') a

Abstract: A latent fingerprint detection method including dipping latent fingerprints in a solution, the solution including a ruthenium tetroxide and a solvent including a halogen-containing hydrocarbon and/or a halogen-containing ester compound, the solution being prepared by dissolving the ruthenium tetroxide in the solvent; or exposing latent fingerprints to a vapor generated from a solution, the solution including a ruthenium tetroxide and a solvent including a halogen-containing hydrocarbon and/or a halogen-containing ether compound, the solution being prepared by dissolving the ruthenium tetroxide in the solvent.

Abstract: A culture medium without or with a low level of protein for culturing a transformed animal cell capable of continuously producing a protein prepared by using a genetic engineering technique, which contains a nonionic surfactant and cyclodextrin, and a method for producing a protein which comprises culturing a transformed animal cell capable of producing the desired protein prepared by using a genetic engineering technique in the culture medium.

Abstract: The present invention provides a secondary cell with an enlarged capacity, therefore enlarging a discharge capacity as well as improving charge/discharge cycle characteristics. The secondary cell has a carbon material for a negative electrode, wherein the spacing of (002) planes d.sub.002, a true density, a crystallite size in the direction of c axis Lc, a and specific surface area of the carbon material are restricted to ranges of 3.39.ANG. to 3.62.ANG., 1.70 g/cc to 2.20 g/cc, 10.ANG. to 50.ANG., and 2 m.sup.2 /g to 50 m.sup.2, respectively. The carbon material is selected from a carbon material group consisting of needle cokes, pitch cokes, and coke derived from furfuryl alcohol.

Abstract: In a film type battery comprising a generating element which is formed by laminating a negative active material, an electrolyte and a positive active material into a layer shape, (1, 2, 3), terminal plates (5, 6) which are installed on and under the generating element and serve also as a current collector and a container, and a frame-shaped sealing material (4) which is installed on peripheral edges of the terminal plates, seals the generating element in between the both terminal plates and insulates one terminal plate from the other; the sealing material is improved. For example, the sealing material is formed into a vertical-type multi-layer structure, in which at least one layer is composed of a layer (41, 42) comprising metal and the other layer (43) is composed of an electric insulator. Thereby, a mechanical strength of the sealing material or a battery becomes large and the battery becomes hard to be bent.

Abstract: A bisphosphonic acid derivative of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A is an optionally substituted cyclic group; R.sup.1 is hydrogen atom or a lower alkanoyl group; R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are the same or different and are hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; m is 0, 1 or 2; and n is an integer from 2 to 10, or a salt thereof is disclosed. A process for its production and a bone resorption inhibitor containing the compound of the general formula (I) or a salt thereof are also disclosed.

Abstract: A crimping device having a reciprocating driven member which is moved back and forth at a rear end of a tubular body inside, a cam which is coupled to a front end of the reciprocating driven member through a link and can be swung with a pin as its fulcrum point, a caulking arm which is in forced contact with the cam at a rear end roller and has a front end claw freely going in and out of a caulking concave portion located at a front end of a main body and is carried by a separate pin at its intermediate portion, a return spring which returns the reciprocating driven member to an ordinary rear end position, and a return spring which always presses the roller onto a cam surface of the cam, the cam surface having such a shape as to push up the roller when the reciprocating driven member is moved forward.

Abstract: A segregation reducing agent for a hydraulic composition which is obtained by adding a water-soluble thickener to a culture of a microorganism capable of producing a .beta.-1,3-glucan selected from the group consisting of curdlan, palamylon and pachyman, in a sufficient amount to give a viscosity to the culture of from about 200 to 2000 cp, followed by spray drying so as to form a powder having a core of the .beta.-1,3-glucan and a coating of the water-soluble thickener.

Abstract: There is provided a main memory (110) for storing a pictorial image constituted by pixels arranged on an XY plane, wherein a train of pixels arranged in an X-direction is defined by a runlength data (c, a) expressed by a color value c that a pixel has and a value a which can indicate the termination of an arrangement of pixels having the same color value. There are also provided a disk unit (200) for retaining data given to said main memory in the form of runlength data as they are, data form conversion unit (130) for converting runlength data in the main memory to raster data, a frame memory (120) for retaining the raster data converted at the data form conversion unit in order to display pictorial images on a visual display (400), and a pictorial image processing unit (140) for implementing a pictorial image processing operation to runlength data in the main memory. The pictorial image processing unit (140) includes a coloring processing section (141) and a draw processing section (142).

Abstract: A novel aminocoumaran derivatives of the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are a hydrogen atom, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aliphatic group or aromatic group; R.sup.3 R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are an optionally acylated hydroxyl optionally substituted amino group, alkoxy group or aliphatic group, or two of R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 may be linked together to form a carbocyclic group; R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are an aliphatic group and at least one of them has a methylene group at the .alpha.-position; R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 are a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic group or aromatic group, or a salt thereof is useful for medicines for preventing and treating various diseases such as arterial schleosis, hepatopathy, cerebrovascular diseases and the like.

Abstract: A tape cassette loading apparatus wherein various components can operate smoothly at suitable timings with a simple construction. A pivotal lever is pivoted at an initial stage when a tape cassette is inserted into a cassette holder, and a controlling member is moved a little forwardly by the pivotal lever. The movement of the controlling member is detected by a position detector, and a loading motor is controlled in response to a detection signal from the position detector. The controlling member is driven to move forwardly and backwardly by power of the loading motor, and a changing-over operation between loading and unloading of a tape cassette and a mode position changing-over operation of a head mounting plate are performed by the forward and backward movement of the controlling member.

Abstract: A process is described for manufacturing through-hole plated single-layer or multi-layer printed circuit boards based on a polymeric substrate material or on a ceramic material provided optionally on both sides with at least one photoresist layer temporarily exposing the electroconductive circuit pattern by electroplating or electroless plating with a metal layer also on those surfaces which have not been coated with a conductive metal layer, characterized in thata) the surfaces of the substrate, after hole-drilling and a subsequent mechanical surface-treatment, are laminated with a suitable photoresist, exposed to light and developed so that the circuit pattern image is exposed,b) the surfaces of the substrate are pre-treated in a solution having oxidizing activity,c) after removal of the residual solution by rinsing, the substrate is introduced into a solution which contains at least one heterocyclic monomer, and more specifically pyrrole, thiophene, furane or derivative(s) thereof, which in a polymeric for

Abstract: The invention relates to ligands of formula ##STR1## in which B represents an ##STR2## W representing the ##STR3## group, in which groups X and Z represent a heterocycle. The invention also relates to the monometallic or polymetallic complexes formed by these ligands with metal ions chosen from lanthanide ions, transition metal ions. barium, bismuth, lead and the radioisotopes .sup.99m Tc, .sup.111 In, .sup.90 Y, .sup.64 Cu and .sup.169 Yb, as well as the physiologically acceptable salts of these complexes.The salts of these complexes may be used as diagnostic or therapeutic agents in nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and X-ray radiology, as in-vivo chemical shift agents and in nuclear medicine.

Abstract: In the process of the invention, multi-component resins are applied to porous, granular materials intended for subsequent consolidation. Application is carried out by feeding the components, physically separated from each other, under relatively high pressure, to a mixing chamber, mixing them by turbulent means in the mixing chamber, and applying the resulting mixture, at relatively low pressure, as a thin curtain in laminar flow to the material. The simplest form of the device of the invention comprises: a) separate feed lines for the components at relatively high pressure; b) a mixing chamber preferably designed as a static mixer; c) a fan spray nozzle working at relatively low pressure. The process and device are used to increase the sound-absorption and/or ease-of-cleaning characteristics of a railway tracks, to increase the cross-sliding resistance of railway sleepers on ballast, and to smooth the transition between a soft and hard railway track.

Abstract: A method for preparing a pig's head for mechanical boning including making a transverse cut in the snout from the underside of the head so that the transverse cut separates the greater part of the rostral bone from the greater part of the jaw-bone, and apparatus for carrying out the method which includes a support structure for upside down placing thereon of the pig's head for preparing and cutting a member movable toward the support structure in direction inclining relative to the support structure and adapted for making a transverse cut in the snout from the underside of the head.

Abstract: The knee orthesis appliance is made of carbon-fiber composite material with an integral Menshik linkover four bar chain (21) made of titanium. It provides the knee joint with secure and reliable support. Owing to its low weight, it is extremely comfortable to wear. The angle of bend (22) can be adjusted to suit the individual as prescribed by the doctor. The shells of the appliance are made from a positive plaster cast (1), using vacuum composite production techniques. This simple process enables the appliance to be manufactured to a high standard of quality in orthopaedic workshops. The joint plates (5,6) are inserted between the individual layers of the composite. Following filling and curing, the sidepieces (16,17) only have to be riveted to the joint plates to complete the four bar chains and hence the finished appliance.

Abstract: A one-way clutch is constructed of an inner member, an outer ring disposed coaxially with the inner member, clutch members arranged between the inner member and the outer ring to permit rotation of one of the inner member and the outer ring in one direction relative to the other but to restrict rotation of said one of the inner member and the outer ring in an opposite direction relative to the other, centering blocks arranged between the inner member and the outer ring, and a cage having support elements for the respective centering blocks. Each of the centering blocks is in the form of a hollow body having a sliding portion and a fixed portion. The sliding portion is maintained in sliding contact with one of the inner member and the outer ring, while the fixed portion is secured on the other one of the inner member and the outer ring.

Abstract: A photosensitive resin composition includes (A) a hydrophobic polymer having a glass transition temperature not greater than 5.degree. C., (B) a hydrophilic polymer, (C) an ethylenically unsaturated compound, (D) a solvent capable of dissolving the component (B) more than the component (A) and (E) a photopolymerization initiator, with the content of component (B) being less than that of component (A). The resin composition can be used to prepare a printing plate having a base, a photosensitive resin layer and a covering layer arranged one over another. The photosensitive resin layer contains a dispersed phase which includes particles having a phase which includes a hydrophobic polymer, surrounded by a phase which includes a hydrophilic polymer. The photosensitive resin layer can be prepared by removing the solvent (D) to a content of 0.001-2% by weight.