Abstract: A process for the preparation of urethane resins, which comprises the steps of: preparing a product(A) having a hydrolysable group directly bonded to 1-10 silicon atoms and having less than two secondary amino groups in one molecule; preparing a product(B) having a terminal isocyanate group in an amount 4% or less by weight of said product(B); and reacting said product(A) with said product(B) in proportions of at least 0.5 equivalent of the product(A) per free NCO group of said product(B).

Abstract: An auger type ice-making machine of the present invention comprises a tubular freezer casing which has an ice-making cylinder that rotatably accommodates an auger inside, an ice compression head which rotatably supports the upper end of the auger, a housing which rotatably supports the lower end of the auger, and a geared motor which is connected to the lower part of the housing. The geared motor drives the auger rotationally. And the auger type ice-making machine of the present invention further comprises a flange which constitutes an attachment base for the ice discharge tube attached to the upper part of the freezer casing. The flange is fastened to the ice-making cylinder by means of bolts that also fasten the ice compression head to the inside of the ice-making cylinder.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a process tube, which processes a plurality of wafers held in a boat and a load lock chamber accommodating therein the boat before and after the boat is loaded into and unloaded from the process tube. The load lock chamber is raised and lowered along with the process tube disposed thereon by a boat elevator and a moving stroke of the load lock chamber is set to be greater than a length of the process tube.

Abstract: The technique of the present invention enables distributed printing to be carried out from a general-purpose application program with favorable operatability.

Abstract: The technique of the present invention ensures distributed printing with a favorable operatability within a sufficiently short time.

Abstract: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of discharging sheets without involving any change in page order without having to provide a sheet reversing path anew. An image forming apparatus is provided, in which an image is formed on a sheet by an image forming portion and the sheet is discharged.

Abstract: In a circuit board having lands 2 each of which has a through hole 4 through which a lead of an electrical part is inserted, the lead 3 and the land 2 being mounted in the circuit board by using lead-free solder 6, the width of the land 2 corresponding to the difference in radius between the land 2 and the through hole 4 is set to about 0.40 mm or more. The width of the land 2 is set to such a value that the land exfoliation due to the solidification/shrinkage of the lead-free solder 6 and the shrinkage of the circuit board in the thickness direction can be prevented. The circuit board 1 has circuit wires at least on both the surface and the back surface.

Abstract: A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above the image-forming portion. The sheet is delivered in the space portion formed between the image-forming portion and the image-reading portion. The sheet treating apparatus includes a connection path unit to be connected with a sheet delivery path for delivering the sheet from the image-forming portion, which connection path unit is mounted in the space portion from the outside of a side surface of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a sheet-treating unit for performing a treatment of the sheet transported from the connection path unit, which sheet-treating unit is mounted in the space portion from the front side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: Imidazole compounds having adenosine deaminase inhibitory activity represented by formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, protected hydroxy, or aryl optionally substituted with suitable substituent(s); R2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl; R3 is hydroxy or protected hydroxy; R4 is cyano, (hydroxy)iminoamino(lower)alkyl, carboxy, protected carboxy, heterocyclic group optionally substituted with amino, or carbamoyl optionally substituted with suitable substituent(s); and —A— is —Q— or —O—Q—, wherein Q is single bond or lower alkylene, provided that when R2 is lower alkyl, then R1 is hydroxy, protected hydroxy, or aryl optionally substituted with suitable substituent(s), its prodrug, or their salt. The compounds are useful for treating and/or preventing diseases for which adenosine is effective.

Abstract: The invention intends to reduce a frequency at which defects occur in a welding region during friction stir welding, and to improve the reliability of the welding region. The invention resides in a friction stir welding apparatus wherein a distance to the surfaces of the workpieces is detected by a detector, a change of the detected distance is found by a signal processing device, and a tool is rotated by a rotation driving device in a state where a vertical driving device is controlled by a control device so as to suppress the found change, whereby a plastic fluidity of the workpieces is caused to accomplish joining of the workpieces.

Abstract: The invention intends to reduce a frequency at which defects occur in a welding region during friction stir welding, and to improve the reliability of the welding region. The invention resides in a friction stir welding apparatus wherein a distance to the surfaces of the workpieces is detected by a detector, a change of the detected distance is found by a signal processing device, and a tool is rotated by a rotation driving device in a state where a vertical driving device is controlled by a control device so as to suppress the found change, whereby a plastic fluidity of the workpieces is caused to accomplish joining of the workpieces.

Abstract: A user I/F unit 200 transmits an instruction given by a user to an access management unit 100 and displays data on a monitor 76. The access management unit 100 transfers requirements to a communication control unit 300 and a data management unit 400 in response to the instruction from the user, transfers data from a communications host to the data management unit 400, and outputs data from a database 410 to the user I/F unit 200. The data management unit 400 writes data into the database 410 and reads storage data from the database 410 in response to the requirement from the access management unit 100. Data transmitted from the communications host are sorted out according to communication services and stored in the database 410. The communication control unit 300 translates the requirement from the access management unit 100 to a menu number representing each communication service available from the communications host or a command and sends the translated requirement to a communication I/F unit 500.

Abstract: A boiler scale collecting device enables collecting and recovery of most boiler scale particulates (p) in a steam flow line (f) in a steam pipe (02) extending from a power generation steam boiler to an inlet (01′) of a power generation steam turbine (01). The steam pipe (02), of constant inner diameter (d), extends from the boiler side to the inlet (01′) of the steam turbine (01), and turns at direction turning portion (e) from a vertical steam pipe (02′) to a lateral steam pipe (02″) near the inlet (01″) of the steam turbine (01). The vertical steam pipe (02′) is elongated beyond the direction turning portion (e) to form an elongated portion (02′a) having a lower end (02″a). The direction turning portion (e), including the vertical steam pipe (02′) and the lateral steam pipe (02″), and the elongated portion (02′a) are made in an integral unit of forged steel.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rotary shaft having a body portion and a pair of coaxial journals integral with opposite ends of the body portion, wherein a hollow journal base metal is prepared separately from the body portion of the rotary shaft for providing at least one of the coaxial journals of the rotary shaft, a layer of antiabrasive and anticorrosive alloy is formed on a cylindrical surface of the hollow journal base metal by build up welding or hard facing, and the hollow journal base metal is connected at one end thereof with the corresponding one end of the body portion of the rotary shaft by friction welding.

Abstract: A user I/F unit 200 transmits an instruction given by a user to an access management unit 100 and displays data on a monitor 76. The access management unit 100 transfers requirements to a communication control unit 300 and a data management unit 400 in response to the instruction from the user, transfers data from a communications host to the data management unit 400, and outputs data from a database 410 to the user I/F unit 200. The data management unit 400 writes data into the database 410 and reads storage data from the database 410 in response to the requirement from the access management unit 100. Data transmitted from the communications host are sorted out according to communication services and stored in the database 410. The communication control unit 300 translates the requirement from the access management unit 100 to a menu number representing each communication service available from the communications host or a command and sends the translated requirement to a communication I/F unit 500.

Abstract: An interleaving method for the presentation of a bitstream that is reproduced by selecting two or more data units from a bitstream comprising three or more data units contiguous on the same time-base. The bitstream is generated by arranging the selected data units in a particular sequence on the same time-base based on the presentation time of each data unit so that it is possible to sequentially access all data units and present only the selected data units without time-base intermittence, and is characterized by dividing the data units into shortest-read-time data units. The bitstream is generated by arranging the shortest-read-time data units in a particular sequence on the same time-base based on the shortest read time in each shortest-read-time data unit so that it is possible to sequentially access all shortest-read-time data units and present only the shortest-read-time data units of the selected data units without time-base intermittence.

Abstract: A device for dilating ducts in vivo, comprising a balloon-tipped catheter to which a cylindrical stent prepared by knitting or braiding or weaving biodegradable fibers to easily reduce diameter of the cylinder to a predetermined value is attached in a compressed condition, method for preparing the device and a stent.

Abstract: In a motion vector detection method for detecting motion vectors for respective blocks divided from an image frame, a motion vector is detected for a block of a luminance signal forming the image frame together with at least one chrominance signal, a reference motion vector is defined with respect to the corresponding block of the chrominance signal based on the motion vector detected, plural candidate motion vectors are set around the reference motion vector, the correlation between two blocks of adjacent frames is detected for each of the candidate motion vectors and a motion vector with the greatest correlation is defined as the motion vector of the chrominance signal. The present method is also applicable to the sub-band processing method of the moving image signal.

Abstract: Continuous production of a long bias cloth is accomplished by manufacturing a tubular fabric on a circular loom having a circular frame, reeds arranged on the frame and a shuttle for a weft rotatable along the frame. The fabric is removed from the loom under tension by a removal device comprising a primary pillar core with a plurality of caterpillars adjacent its outer periphery. Removal under tension prevents the formation of any edge portion causing folds and wrinkles in the tubular fabric. The tubular fabric is then spirally cut by a cutting device which has a secondary pillar core with a plurality of feed rolls adjacent its outer periphery. The feed rolls are capable of moving the fabric forward relative to its length, while the cutter is capable of moving circumferentially relative to fabric lengbth. A long bias cloth of high quality can be manufactured continuously, even when the warp and weft fibers used have high-strength and poor or low elongation.

Abstract: A passenger conveyor, such as an escalator or a moving walkway, in which a device for transmitting a change of direction of the movement of treadboards to a passenger by changing the passenger's sense of touch is provided in the vicinity of a boundary between a horizontal path and an inclined path. With this construction, a level difference between the adjacent treadboards is produced when the treadboard moves into the inclined path, thereby preventing the passenger from accidentally falling down.