Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a coating comprising an antimicrobial porous membrane, the porous membrane including an allophane particle and an abietane-type diterpenoid compound adsorbed on the allophane particle is provided. In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a fabric comprising a base material which is a fabric, and an antimicrobial porous membrane arranged on the base material is provided. The antimicrobial porous membrane includes an allophane particle and an abietane-type diterpenoid compound adsorbed on the allophane particle.

Abstract: Provided is a 2-heteroaryl aminoquinazolinone derivative, which is a compound represented by formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein X1 represents CR1 or N, X2 represents CR2 or N, X3 represents CR3 or N, X4 represents CR4 or N, Y represents optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, an optionally substituted C3-10 alicyclic group, an optionally substituted 4- to 10-membered nitrogen-containing non-aryl heterocycle, optionally substituted C6-10 aryl, or optionally substituted 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, Z represents optionally substituted 6- to 10-membered heteroaryl, and R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen, cyano, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, optionally substituted C1-6 alkoxy, or the like.

Abstract: Provided is a 2-heteroaryl aminoquinazolinone derivative, which is a compound represented by formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein X1 represents CR1 or N, X2 represents CR2 or N, X3 represents CR3 or N, X4 represents CR4 or N, Y represents optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, an optionally substituted C3-10 alicyclic group, an optionally substituted 4- to 10-membered nitrogen-containing non-aryl heterocycle, optionally substituted C6-10 aryl, or optionally substituted 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, Z represents optionally substituted 6- to 10-membered heteroaryl, and R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen, cyano, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, optionally substituted C1-6 alkoxy, or the like.

Abstract: Provided is a 2-heteroaryl aminoquinazolinone derivative, which is a compound represented by formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein X1 represents CR1 or N, X2 represents CR2 or N, X3 represents CR3 or N, X4 represents CR4 or N, Y represents optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, an optionally substituted C3-10 alicyclic group, an optionally substituted 4- to 10-membered nitrogen-containing non-aryl heterocycle, optionally substituted C6-10 aryl, or optionally substituted 5- to 10-membered heteroaryl, Z represents optionally substituted 6- to 10-membered heteroaryl, and R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, halogen, cyano, optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl, optionally substituted C1-6 alkoxy, or the like.

Abstract: A computer system comprising a data file having entries each of which is designed to hold data, an advanced and a completed mapping file each having entries each of which is designed to hold a data-file-entry address, an operation window that is a buffer to hold substances of operations waiting execution, and a state-modification queue that is designed to be able to hold a substance of a modification on the advanced mapping file for each clock cycle; wherein making a modification on the advanced mapping file, entering the substance of this modification into the state-modification queue, and entering substances of operations into the operation window are each to be done in one clock cycle, and operations held in the operation window are to be executed out of order. The system can attain high performance easily and utilize programs described in any machine language for traditional register-based/stack-based processors.

Abstract: A register renaming system for a processor based on superscalar architecture that can process a larger number of instructions per cycle by providing a free list to hold unallocated physical-register numbers and a mapping table whose entries are provided in respective correspondence with the logical registers and each designed to hold a physical-register number, and by pipelining where dependency checks among instructions are to be done as a pre-process.

Abstract: A robust microelectromechanical switch. In an illustrative embodiment, the switch is adapted for use in a display and includes a first flexible surface and a second surface. The second surface is angled relative to the first surface, forming a wedge the first surface and the second surface. A first terminal and a second terminal are positioned relative to the first flexible surface and the second surface so that selective flexing of the flexible surface electrically couples or uncouples the first terminal to the second terminal. In a more specific embodiment, the switch further includes a first mechanism for selectively applying an electrostatic force between the first flexible surface and the second surface. The first surface is positioned on a first elastic flexible layer, and the second surface is positioned on a second layer. The first mechanism includes a first actuator electrode that is coupled to the first surface, and a second actuator electrode that is coupled to the second surface.

Abstract: The computer system presented comprises a data file having entries each designed to hold data, an advanced and a completed mapping file each having entries each designed to hold a data-file-entry address, a state-modification queue having entries each designed to hold substance of a modification made on the advanced mapping file, means for holding statuses of operations provided in respective correspondence with the entries of the state-modification queue, and a means for performing issued operations out of order. Making a modification on the advanced mapping file, entering the substance of this modification into the state-modification queue, and issuing operations are each to be done in one cycle. Each issued operation is to be executed out of order. And, if it is terminated normally, the corresponding part of the means for holding statuses of operations is to be altered accordingly.

Abstract: A flexible micro-electromechanical switch having a cantilevered platform for forming an electrical circuit. A latching mechanism maintains the platform in a biased position after the biasing voltage is removed. The flexible micro-electromechanical switch can be formed into large area arrays and used as the backplane of display devices.

Abstract: Micro-electromechanical devices having an improved flexible layer enable the use of material having a wider range of elastic modulus. The MEM devices include a substantially non-pliable layer and a substantially flexible layer both of which include electrodes that when energized will create electrostatic forces that attracts the flexible layer to the non-pliable layer. The flexible layer has perforations or apertures cut into the flexible layer of a MEMs device to alter operational properties such as electrostatic sensitivity, resonance frequency, rate of change of sensitivity above the resonance frequency, oscillating mass, panel stiffness and others parameters.

Abstract: A computer system comprising a data file having entries each of which is designed to hold data, an advanced and a completed mapping file each having entries each of which is designed to hold a data-file-entry address, an operation window that is a buffer to hold substances of operations waiting execution, and a state-modification queue that is designed to be able to hold a substance of a modification on the advanced mapping file for each clock cycle; wherein making a modification on the advanced mapping file, entering the substance of this modification into the state-modification queue, and entering substances of operations into the operation window are each to be done in one clock cycle, and operations held in the operation window are to be executed out of order. The system can attain high performance easily and utilize programs described in any machine language for traditional register-based/stack-based processors.

Abstract: A contact magnetic storage system in which the slider, which supports the magnetic read/write head, is in physical contact with a rigid magnetic storage medium during system operation at a selected operating speed. The slider material has a load versus friction characteristic that is non-linear in the negative load region. This characteristic allows the slider to be suspended from an access arm with zero or negative external loading. In a conventional magnetic storage system, at operating speed the slider is lifted away from the surface of the storage medium by at least the thickness of the air film adjacent the moving storage medium surface. In the present invention, due to the non-linear load versus friction characteristics of the slider material, a restoring force is generated at system operating speed which overcomes the lift of the air bearing and maintaining the slider in contact with the storage medium surface without substantial wear or damage to either the slider or the storage medium.

Abstract: An electronic computer system is formed of a control processor (1) and a plurality of processor elements (3.sub.1 -3.sub.n). Each of the processor elements (3.sub.1 -3.sub.n) has a control unit (30.sub.i) that processes instructions issued by the control processor (1) in the SIMD manner, a data-driven processing unit (31.sub.i) for performing arithmetic/logic operations and data transfering to a destination processor element of the processor elements (3.sub.1 -3.sub.n) through a packet transmission network (22) in a data-driven manner and a local memory (35.sub.i). The control processor (1) broadcasts instructions to set the data-driven processing unit (31.sub.i) in each of the processor elements (3.sub.1 -3.sub.n) contents that are to be performed in the data-driven manner. In each of the processor elements (3.sub.1 -3.sub.n), operations in the data-driven processing unit (31.sub.i) based on the data-driven manner are performed in parallel with setting of the data-driven processing unit (31.sub.i).

Abstract: A contact magnetic storage system in which the slider, which supports the magnetic read/write head, is in physical contact with a rigid magnetic storage medium during system operation at a selected operating speed. The slider material has a load versus friction characteristic that is non-linear in the negative load region. This characteristic allows the slider to be suspended from an access arm with zero or negative external loading. In a conventional magnetic storage system, at operating speed the slider is lifted away from the surface of the storage medium by at least the thickness of the air film adjacent the moving storage medium surface. In the present invention, due to the non-linear load versus friction characteristics of the slider material, a restoring force is generated at system operating speed which overcomes the lift of the air bearing and maintains the slider in contact with the storage medium surface without substantial wear or damage to either the slider or the storage medium.

Abstract: An optical recording system in which the optical head is operated in physical contact with the surface of the optical recording medium during system operation at a selected operating speed. The optical head includes one or more optical elements mounted on a substrate which is in physical, sliding contact with the recording medium. The substrate is fabricated from a crystalline material which has a non-linear load versus friction characteristic in the negative load region. When the head is in sliding contact with the recording medium surface, a restoring force is generated which maintains the optical head in physical contact with the recording medium overcoming any lifting forces generated by the moving air layer adjacent the recording medium surface. This allows the head to be operated with a negative external load applied.

Abstract: A contact magnetic storage system in which the slider, which supports the magnetic read/write head, is in physical contact with a rigid magnetic storage medium during system operation at a selected operating speed. The slider material has a load versus friction characteristic that is non-linear in the negative load region. This characteristic allows the slider to be suspended from an access arm with zero or negative external loading. In a conventional magnetic storage system, at operating speed the slider is lifted away from the surface of the storage medium by at least the thickness of the air film adjacent the moving storage medium surface. In the present invention, due to the non-linear load versus friction characteristics of the slider material, a restoring force is generated at system operating speed which overcomes the lift of the air bearing and maintains the slider in contact with the storage medium surface without substantial wear or damage to either the slider or the storage medium.

Abstract: Optical elements, and methods for fabricating them, are described wherein each element includes a free standing (self supporting) polycrystalline continuous thin film of diamond combined with a non-hydrogenated amorphous diamond like carbon (DLC) film having a high percentage of sp.sup.3 bonding. These elements may be designed to have optically smooth surfaces, have wide optical transmission ranges (for example, be transparent across the infrared portion of the spectrum), and exhibit exceptional durability characteristics. Optical instruments that include such elements are also described, along with the derivative benefits, such as improved operating performance and lower maintenance requirements, realized using the novel optical elements. In particular, a polarization Michaelson interferometer (PMI) is taught which is operative over the entire range from far infrared into the visible portion of the spectrum without requiring the exchange of beam splitters or beam polarizers.

Abstract: An erasable visual image display device contains a pair of conductive electrodes in spaced relationship. One electrode has a cation permselective membrane thereon and the other electrode has an anion permselective membrane thereon. Positioned between the two membranes is a recording medium having the properties of being both photoionizable and capable of electrochemically producing colored species. The medium contains an electrochemically reversible acceptor molecule, for example, 1, 2, 4, 5 tetracyanobenzene and an electrochemically reversible donor molecule, for example, 1-phenyl-3 diethylaminostyrl 5-diethylaminophenyl .DELTA..sup.2 pyrazoline.