Abstract: A drive coupling device for transmitting a rotational drive force from an optical instrument such as a camera body to another optical instrument such as an exchangeable lens has a construction which couples driving and driven coupling members steadily while centerizing the center axes of the driving and driven coupling members for efficient drive force transmission. A flat male engaging portion having a top surface and parallel side walls is formed on the driving coupling member while a slotted female engaging portion having a concave bottom wall and parallel side walls is formed on the driven coupling member. With the optical instruments connected to each other, the male engaging portion is brought into engagement with the female engaging portion under a force of a spring.

Abstract: 1,2-Diaminocyclohexane platinum (II) complexes of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, are selected from nitrate and various organic carboxylate groups, with the proviso that R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are not both nitrate, and the configuration of the 1,2-diaminocyclohexane being selected from cis, trans-d and trans-1, have been found to exhibit potent cytostatic activity.They may be made by reacting a starting material, in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are nitrate, with the appropriate carboxylic acid or salt thereof.

Abstract: A variable sized free standing promotional display for promotional advertising. In place of the normal cardboard display shelf of one size, the invention contemplates using end members of plastic having vertical pedestals above and below the end members. The end members include one-way locking tabs on both the side, upper and lower walls to receive an appropriately slotted and cut beam member, which may be made of corrugated cardboard from the packing materials. The side edges of the beam are received and locked by the one-way locking tabs and is centered and held rigidly by central vertical channels. The transverse length of the shelves may be varied, in accordance with the length of the beam member utilized.Vertical cardboard columns may be anchored on the pedestal members to provide a vertical promotional display of more than one shelf.

Abstract: A key ring device comprising a jointed ring which can be drawn apart to allow insertion of a key or other object and an accessory part hanging from the ring. The accessory part includes a tool component to separate the ring loops and a guard member surrounding the tool to protect the user from the tool.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine apparatus and method of operation includes the monitoring of the exhaust gas temperature and air-fuel ratio on a continuing basis. The exhaust gas temperature is compared to a stored value and compression of the input air is varied to cause the exhaust gas temperature to equal the stored value. By minimizing the exhaust gas temperature increased engine efficiency can be realized. The invention may be embodied in a variety of engine configurations, including piston and turbine systems.

Abstract: A diaphragm control device for a lens exchangeable type camera includes diaphragm driving means providing a uniform speed over the entire diaphragm control range, so that accurate diaphragm control is achieved even in the vicinity of a fully open aperture value. The start position of the diaphragm drive means is determined such that the diaphragm control member of an exchangeable lens is engaged by a stopper to define a fully open aperture position in the course of return movement of the diaphragm drive means to the start position. A coupling spring coupling the diaphragm drive means with a diaphragm control member of a camera body as an integral unit is deformed to allow separation of the diaphragm drive means from the diaphragm control member of the camera body so that the diaphragm drive means can return to the start position after the engagement of the stopper with the diaphragm control member of the exchangeable lens.

Abstract: A new substance K-259-2 having a molecular formula of C.sub.21 H.sub.18 O.sub.7, a molecular weight of 382 and an elemental analysis (%) of H: 4.50, C: 65.53 and N: 0. This substance is of interest in providing a new vasodilating agent in view of its ability to dilate the blood vessel, particularly the artery, of mammals. This substance may be obtained by fermentation of a microorganism Micromonospora sp. K-259 (FERM BP 569).

Abstract: An automatic focusing camera includes a camera body and an interchangeable objective lens. The camera body includes a detector device exposed to the object image and a circuit providing a signal of a value in accordance with the detector device sensed difference between the object image, a predetermined focal plane and a circuit responsive to the signal for controlling a motor to rotate an amount in accordance with the signal. The objective lens includes a stationary front lens and an axially movable focusing lens which axially moves with a follower engaging the cam way of a cylindrical cam which is gear rotated by the separably coupled motor shaft. The cam is shaped whereby .DELTA..theta.=C.multidot..DELTA.L wherein .DELTA..theta. is the amount of rotation of the motor, .DELTA.L is the axial movement of the object image and C is a constant depending on the objective lens which has a ROM having information in accordance with C and which is separably coupled to the motor control circuit.

Abstract: The present invention provides new mitomycin derivatives of general formula (I) ##STR1## [wherein Y and Z, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group;represents .alpha. or .beta. bonding and X represents a group of formula (II) ##STR2## (wherein R.sub.1 to R.sub.5 are each selected from hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, nitro, amino, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkylamino or lower alkanoylamino);or an S-yl group of an amino acid having a thiol group, the carboxyl group optionally being protected e.g. in the form of a lower alkyl ester group and the amino group optionally being protected e.g. in the form of a lower alkanoylamino group;or an S-yl group of a di- or tripeptide containing an amino acid residue with a thiol group, the carboxyl group optionally being protected e.g. in the form of a lower alkyl ester and the amino group optionally being protected e.g. in the form of a lower alkanoylamino group]; and salts thereof.

Abstract: A frame member is bonded on a base plate having a plurality of electrical contacts thereon. The frame member includes a plurality of apertures corresponding to the electrical contacts. Bonding means bonding the frame member on the base plate is formed by a waterproof double faced bonding member including a waterproof sheet and waterproof bonding agent applied to both sides of the sheet, the double faced bonding member separates the electrical contacts from each other to prevent accidential conduction between the adjacent electrical contacts due to a water drop.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for inducing contractile motility of the gastrointestinal tract in humans and animals, comprising as active ingredient 8,9-anhydroerythromycin 6,9-hemiketals, anhydroerythromycins, derivatives thereof and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient. The active compounds may be produced by chemical modification of erythromycin and exhibit no or little antimicrobial activity. By administering the present composition to humans and animals, contractile motility of the gastrointestinal tract similar to the motility occurring naturally under normal conditions may be effectively induced.

Abstract: Quinazoline derivatives and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts having the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents hydrogen or alkyl;R.sup.3 represents alkyl or substituted alkyl;R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 each represent alkoxy;Z is oxygen or sulfur;m is zero or 1;n is zero or an integer from 1 to 5,exhibit a cardiotonic activity with little tendency to cause tachycardia.

Abstract: A vaccine for preventing or at least inhibiting periodontitis of humans and animals, which is induced or deteriorated by the action of oral microorganisms, which comprises an antigen isolated from the pili of an oral microorganism capable of inducing and/or deteriorating periodontitis and having the pili on the cell surface. For example, antigens isolated from the pili of Actinomyces viscosus, Actinomyces naeslundii, Actinobacillus actinomycem comitans, Bacteroides gingivalus and mutant strains thereof may be used solely or in combination for the preparation of the present vaccine. In one embodiment, the vaccine comprises an antigen isolated from the pili of Actinomyces viscosus which is a representative periodontitis-inducing oral microorganisms in association with one or more other antigens isolated from other virulent oral microorganisms.

Abstract: An interchangeable lens unit is detachably attachable to a camera main body through an improved bayonet arrangement which includes three sets of corresponding bayonet claws, one of the corresponding bayonet claws of each set being provided on a mount member of the lens unit and the other on a mount member of the camera main body. The bayonet claws of the three sets are formed, in mutual dimension and dispositions thereof, such that the corresponding bayonet claws of one of the sets engage one another at an upper peripheral part of the mount members immediately above the center of the mount members and the corresponding bayonet claws of the remaining two sets engage one another respectively at lateral side peripheral parts of the mount members diametrically opposite to one another with respect to the center of the mount members in the lateral direction, when the camera main body and the lens unit attached thereto are viewed from their front with the camera main body held in a normal erect state.

Abstract: A planetarium comprises a star field projector which projects the star field, a ring-shaped member which supports the star field projector rotatably about a first axis, a first rotating member which supports the ring-shaped member rotatably about a second axis orthogonally crossing the first axis, a support base which supports the first rotating member rotatably about a third axis orthogonally crossing the second axis, a second rotating member provided on the support base rotatable about the third axis independent of the first rotating member, and a coordinates projector provided on the second rotating member.

Abstract: A mailer in the form of a receptacle having a base and upstanding sides is foldable into an essentially planar configuration. The receptacle surfaces are adapted for informational indicia, and are provided with means to seal the receptacle in the folded state. The mailer can be used for the transport of materials either within the folded receptacle or the receptacle can be wrapped about an item, such as a catalog, to serve both as a mailer and as a protective cover.

Abstract: A planetarium includes a fixed star field projector and a plurality of planet projectors spaced from the star field projector. A computerized control controls the rotation of the projectors, each of the planet projectors being controlled in its rotation about a pair of perpendicular axes alternatively in two modes, in the first mode the projected image traversing normal apparent orbital or other path in the star field and in the second mode the image traversing the shortest path from an initial point to a terminal point in the star field which points represent different times and/or points of observation.

Abstract: An exchangeable lens to be mounted on a camera body by the rotation of the lens barrel is provided with a plurality of terminals arranged circularly along the circumference of the lens barrel about the optical axis of the lens barrel and are connected to a CMOS circuit in the lens. The terminals include a power supply terminal and a ground terminal through which electric power is supplied from the camera and a signal terminal through which a signal is transmitted between the camera body and the lens. The power supply terminal and the ground terminal are arranged to come into contact with their corresponding camera terminals in advance of the signal terminals when the lens is rotated to mount it on the camera body.

Abstract: The copying rate of an electrophotographic copying machine of constant paper advance speed including a toner image fixing unit which is selectively preset to predetermined values in increment inverse relationship to the thickness of the copy sheets employed, so that copy sheets of greater thickness are fed to the fixing unit for lesser feed rate than the thinner standard sheets, whereby the copy sheets are adequately heated at the different thicknesses. Following the termination of a copy sequence of thicker sheets at reduced feed rate, the copy machine automatically reverts to its rate setting for standard thickness sheets. In copying with standard thickness sheets, the period of the first copying cycle is greater than that for subsequent sheets and the copying rate with the thicker sheets is the same as that for the first copy with standard thickness sheets. A microcomputer network with a rate selector switch programs the copying machine in the above manner.