Abstract: A valve device including a valve chamber having an inlet port at one end and a valve seat at the other end; a valve housing containing the valve chamber; the valve chamber accommodating a spherical valve element which performs opening and closing operation to the valve seat, and a valve spring which urges the valve element in a closing direction; and a push rod which penetrates a center hole of the valve seat and pushes the valve element in an opening direction. A cylindrical valve guide member is fit into the valve chamber, the cylindrical valve guide member including a plurality of guide projections on an inner peripheral surface to guide opening and closing operation of the valve element. Grooves between the plurality of guide projections serve as passages providing communication between the inlet port and the valve seat.

Abstract: A shielding plate for controlling the entry of oil between an inner ring and an outer ring is provided in the vicinity of an opening between the inner ring and the outer ring which lies a side where oil enters. In addition, a fluid accommodating plate for accommodating therein oil is provided in the vicinity of an opening between the outer ring and the inner ring which lies on a side where oil exits.

Abstract: Crystals of 5-[2-amino-4-(2-furyl)pyrimidin-5-yl]-1-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one having a diffraction peak at a diffraction angle (2?±0.2°) of 12.8°, 18.1° and/or 23.5° in a powder X-ray diffraction are excellent in stability against light, therefore are suitable for an active ingredient of a preventing and therapeutic agent for diseases such as constipation.

Abstract: The present invention provides carbapenem hydrochloride trihydrate crystals, which are chemically stable, easily purified and useful as antimicrobial agents, a process for producing them, and a powdery charged preparation for injection containing them. That is, it provides carbapenem hydrochloride trihydrate crystals having a powdery X-ray diffraction pattern containing lattice distances (d) of 9.0, 4.1 and 2.8 ?, a process for producing them, and a powdery charged preparation for injection containing them.

Abstract: An HDC asserts the read gate of an RDC when a read head is positioned in a sector located before a sector that a hot system instructs to read data when seen from the rotation direction of a storage medium. The data that the read head has read from the sector is used to adapt a circuit that constitutes the RDC. However, the data is not transferred to the host system. Such a process is repeated until the read head reaches a position where data stored in a sector whose data has been instructed to read can be read. In this way, time needed to adapt a circuit that constitutes a read channel can be shortened.

Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor test apparatus including: a first waveform generating means that generates a common pattern waveform corresponding to common information common to each of a plurality of semiconductor devices; a plurality of second waveform generating means that generates individual pattern waveforms corresponding to a plurality of individual information individually prepared in response to each of the plurality of semiconductor devices; and a waveform switching unit that selectively performs an operation of inputting the common pattern waveform generated from the first waveform generating means in common and an operation of inputting the individual pattern waveforms respectively generated from the plurality of second waveform generating means individually, into each of the plurality of semiconductor devices.

Abstract: The present invention provides carbapenem hydrochloride trihydrate crystals, which are chemically stable, easily purified and useful as antimicrobial agents, a process for producing them, and a powdery charged preparation for injection containing them. That is, it provides carbapenem hydrochloride trihydrate crystals having a powdery X-ray diffraction pattern containing lattice distances (d) of 9.0, 4.1 and 2.8 ?, a process for producing them, and a powdery charged preparation for injection containing them.

Abstract: An end faced on an outer side in a radial direction of a small diameter annular portion of a retainer is disposed on an inner side in a radial direction of a pitch conical face of a taper roller and an end face on an inner side in a radial direction of a large diameter annular portion is disposed on an outer side in the radial direction of the pitch conical face. Further, a portion of the small diameter annular portion opposed to a small diameter end face of the taper roller is disposed on the inner side in the radial direction of the pitch conical face and a portion of the large diameter annular portion opposed to a large diameter end face of the taper roller is disposed on the outer side in the radial direction of the pitch conical face.

Abstract: A valve device comprises: a valve chamber having an inlet port at one end and a valve seat at the other end; a valve housing containing the valve chamber; the valve chamber accommodating a spherical valve element which performs opening and closing operation to the valve seat, and a valve spring which urges the valve element in a closing direction; and a push rod which penetrates a center hole of the valve seat and pushes the valve element in an opening direction. A cylindrical valve guide member is fit into the valve chamber, the cylindrical valve guide member including a plurality of guide projections on an inner peripheral surface to guide opening and closing operation of the valve element. Grooves between the plurality of guide projections serve as passages providing communication between the inlet port and the valve seat.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a process for efficient, inexpensive and stereoselective production of (2S,4S)-2-[[(3R)-pyrrolidin-3-yl-(R)-hydroxylmethyl]pyrrolidin-4-thiol dihydrochloride useful as an intermediate in production of novel carbapenem, and the intermediate is produced via a novel crystallizable intermediate (2S,4R)—N-t-butoxycarbonyl-2-[[(3R)—N-t-butoxycarbonyl pyrrolidin-3-yl-(R)-hydroxylmethyl]-4-hydroxypyrrolidine from a (2S,4R)-4-alkylsilyloxy-N-t-butoxycarbonylpyridine-2-carbaldehyde derivative by aldol reaction using an asymmetric assistant such as amino-alcohol.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus or digital camera in which an image of a subject formed by lenses (L1 and L2), and a low pass filter (F), in a photographic optical system is inputted by an imaging device unit (IS), an A/D converter (11, 111 or 211) and an image processing unit (12, 112 or 212), in an imaging device, comprises the a blur detecting part (16) and a blur detecting unit (17) in a blur-detecting device (SD), a compensating unit (BU) and a blur-compensation driving unit (20, 120 or 220) in a blur compensating device, a blur-compensation controlling device or system controller (15) for computing a displaced amount for compensation in a blur compensating device from an output of the blur detecting device and driving the blur compensating device, a device or the system controller (15) and a memory group (19) for calibrating a conversion coefficient for converting the output of the blur detecting device into the displaced amount, and a device for executing a calibrating operation, or the system controller

Abstract: An HDC asserts the read gate of an RDC when a read head is positioned in a sector located before a sector that a hot system instructs to read data when seen from the rotation direction of a storage medium. The data that the read head has read from the sector is used to adapt a circuit that constitutes the RDC. However, the data is not transferred to the host system. Such a process is repeated until the read head reaches a position where data stored in a sector whose data has been instructed to read can be read. In this way, time needed to adapt a circuit that constitutes a read channel can be shortened.

Abstract: A production process which comprises subjecting a basic antibiotic.oxalate (II) to salt-exchange with an alkali earth metal salt (III) of an inorganic acid: wherein the ring A means the basic antibiotic; R10 means a protected functional group used in organic synthesis; Ak—E means the alkali earth metal; and B means the inorganic acid, respectively.

Abstract: An access control method used in a client connected to a server. The method manages a certification authority certificate used to judge whether the server has right to access the client. The certification authority certificate is made into a usable state under a predetermined condition. When accessing the server, the client receives a certificate specifying the server transmitted from the server. When a certification authority certificate corresponding to the certificate specifying the server exists in a usable state, access to the server is enables in accordance with a comparison result.

Abstract: Generalized, low-cost, and easy digital signature verification techniques for use in information processing operations that require a plurality of digital signatures and series of information processing operations that require a plurality of digital signatures based on the progression of operations. Techniques are provided for verifying signatures on an information processing request, received via a network from a processing application computer, to which multiple digital signatures are to be affixed.

Abstract: Techniques that allow trust evaluation institutions to share trust information of members (users) belonging to different trust evaluation institutions. A member registered at one trust evaluation institution can carry out a transaction with a member registered at another trust evaluation institution even if the trust evaluation institutions use different techniques, methods, procedures, or standards for evaluating trust information for their members.

Abstract: The present invention provides a payment method that balances reliability, security, and speed of payments, a system for the same, and a recording medium storing a program for the same. In one embodiment, a financial institution such as a credit company, a bank, or the like determines whether or not a payment request from a buyer is valid using billing information from the merchant involved in the payment and authentication information from the buyer. Then, if the billing information sent from the merchant does not match the ordering information extracted from the authentication information, the payment request is rejected.

Abstract: A printer of the present invention includes at least a first and a second drum unit each including a respective print drum. Angular position sensing device each are assigned to the respective print drum. A main motor included in drum drive mechanism is controlled on the basis of the output of a first or a second drum unlock key such that the print drum of the first or second drum unit is brought to a preselected home position. The printer has a compact configuration and promotes easy, efficient manipulation without resorting to conventional top-bottom movement adjustment mechanism including top-bottom moving device.

Abstract: Recipient machine sends a contents request message with recipient's public key to entitlement granter machine. On the entitlement granter machine, digital rights data relevant to the contents request is encrypted with the recipient's public key. Encrypted digital rights data with the entitlement granter's digital signature thereon is returned to recipient machine. On the recipient machine, encrypted digital rights data is decrypted with the recipient's secret key. The recipient machine sends a message containing digital rights data thus decrypted, recipient's public key, and the above encrypted data to contents distributor machine.

Abstract: In a computer system in which nodes are connected to each other via a network, transmission and reception buffers of sender and receiver processes are prepared as resident areas in a main storage. A node of a receiver side notifies, prior to initiation of a communication, a physical address of a data reception area of the node to a node on a sender side. In the node on the sender side, the reported physical address is added to transmission data to transfer a resultant item. On the receiver side, reception data is written in a location of the main storage at the physical address. In the receiver node, the double buffering is employed to prevent an overwriting operation of another node onto the data reception area. The respective nodes achieve partial synchronization with adjacent nodes in chain, thereby automatically establishing synchronization between all nodes.