Abstract: The control valve assembly is provided with a reinforcing portion straddling a drain port, the drain port allowing communication between an inside and an outside of the control valve assembly. The reinforcing portion is provided along a bore in which a spool of the control valve for control is housed. The control valve for control is a pressure regulator vale regulating a line pressure, the line pressure being a primary pressure of a hydraulic oil of the automatic transmission.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tetrazoyloxime derivative which is less likely to cause chemical injury to useful plants and is also superior in chemical efficacy to a conventional hetero ring-substituted oxime derivative. A tetrazoyloxime derivative represented by the general formula (1): X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cyano group, a methanesulfonyl group, a nitro group, a trifluoromethyl group, or an aryl group; A represents a 1-alkyltetrazoyl-5-yl group or a 5-alkyltetrazoyl-1-yl group; and Het represents a pyridyl group having a substituent or a thiazoyl group having a substituent, and a plant disease controlling agent containing the same as an active ingredient are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a pharmaceutical starting compound compound by hydrolyzing a compound of the general formula (II): Wherein R1 is protected carboxy, R2 is lower alkoxy or higher alkoxy, A1 is an aromatic bivalent group, heterocyclic bivalent group or cyclo (lower) alkane bivalent group, and A2 is an aromatic bivalent group, heterocyclic bivalent group or cyclo (lower) alkane bivalent group, with aqueous potassium hydroxide and by treating with hydrochloric acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tetrazoyloxime derivative which is less likely to cause chemical injury to useful plants and is also superior in chemical efficacy to a conventional hetero ring-substituted oxime derivative. A tetrazoyloxime derivative represented by the general formula (1): X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cyano group, a methanesulfonyl group, a nitro group, a trifluoromethyl group, or an aryl group; A represents a 1-alkyltetrazoyl-5-yl group or a 5-alkyltetrazoyl-1-yl group; and Het represents a pyridyl group having a substituent or a thiazoyl group having a substituent, and a plant disease controlling agent containing the same as an active ingredient are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a pharmaceutical starting compound compound by hydrolyzing a compound of the general formula (II): Wherein R1 is protected carboxy, R2 is lower alkoxy or higher alkoxy, A1 is an aromatic bivalent group, heterocyclic bivalent group or cyclo(lower)alkane bivalent group, and A2 is an aromatic bivalent group, heterocyclic bivalent group or cyclo(lower)alkane bivalent group, with aqueous potassium hydroxide and by treating with hydrochloric acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a tetrazoyloxime derivative which is less likely to cause chemical injury to useful plants and is also superior in chemical efficacy to a conventional hetero ring-substituted oxime derivative. A tetrazoyloxime derivative represented by the general formula (1): X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a cyano group, a methanesulfonyl group, a nitro group, a trifluoromethyl group, or an aryl group; A represents a 1-alkyltetrazoyl-5-yl group or a 5-alkyltetrazoyl-1-yl group; and Het represents a pyridyl group having a substituent or a thiazoyl group having a substituent, and a plant disease controlling agent containing the same as an active ingredient are disclosed.

Abstract: The novel agricultural and horticultural fungicidal compositions containing as active ingredients a combination of A) 1,1′-iminiodi(octamethylene)diguanidine of the formula  (iminoctadine) or an acid addition salt thereof and B) 1,1′-iminiodi(octamethylene)diguanidine of the formula  (fenhexamid) are outstandingly active as fungicides.

Abstract: This invention provides an industrially useful process for producing a quinazoline derivative (I) of the general formula: [wherein R1 is hydrogen or halogen; R2 is carboxy or protected carboxy; A is lower alkylene] or its salt on a commercial scale which comprises reacting a compound of the general formula: [wherein R1 is hydrogen or halogen] or its salt with a silylating agent and then with a compound of the general formula: Cl—A—R2  (III) [wherein R2 is carboxy or protected carboxy; A is lower alkylene] or its salt, optionally followed by desilylation.

Abstract: Various oxime derivatives are provided, which do not cause any chemical damage to plants and which exhibit sufficient effectiveness against various plant diseases. The oxime derivatives are expressed by two general chemical formulas (1) and (2), as follows. Agricultural chemicals and plant disease control chemicals are also provided which contain the above mentioned oxime derivatives as active ingredients. Test results of these agricultural chemicals and the plant disease control chemicals are proved to be very effective for downey mildews and late blights or Phytophthora rot etc.

Abstract: The object is to provide a novel compound, with which there is little possibility of phytotoxicity for crop plants, and which is greatly effective in controlling various plant diseases caused by viruses pathogenic to plants, by bacteria, and by molds, and to provide agricultural chemicals, particularly agents for controlling plant diseases, containing this compound, 2,6-dichloro-4-pyridinemethanol, and/or a benzoic acid ester thereof as an active ingredient.

Abstract: In sound recognition apparatus of the present invention, user's utterance or a sound provided by an output section using previously stored sound waveforms is simultaneously inputted through a basic microphone of known frequency characteristics and an input microphone of unknown frequency characteristics. An analysis section respectively analyzes the frequency of the input speech through the basic microphone and the input microphone. A frequency characteristics calculation section calculates first difference data between the frequencies of the input speech of the basic microphone and the input microphone, and calculates frequency characteristics of the input microphone according to the first difference data and the frequency characteristics of the basic microphone.

Abstract: Low- and high-dimensional feature parameters are obtained by analyzing a speech pattern to be recognized. A word spotting section extracts a plurality of approximate word feature vector candidates representing word features from the low-dimensional feature parameter without fixing word boundaries. Start and end points are detected for each of the word feature vector candidates. Detail word feature vector candidates are extracted from the high-dimensional feature parameter in accordance with the detected start and end points. A recognition dictionary stores reference patterns with which the detail word feature vector candidates are matched. A pattern matching section calculates similarity values between each of the detail word feature vector candidates and the reference patterns stored in the recognition dictionary. A recognition result selects reference patterns stored in the recognition dictionary when its similarity value is greater than a prescribed threshold value.

Abstract: A speech dialogue system capable of realizing natural and smooth dialogue between the system and a human user, and easy maneuverability of the system. In the system, a semantic content of input speech from a user is understood and a semantic content determination of a response output is made according to the understood semantic content of the input speech. Then, a speech response and a visual response according to the determined response output are generated and outputted to the user. The dialogue between the system and the user is managed by controlling transitions between user states during which the input speech is to be entered and system states during which the system response is to be outputted. The understanding of a semantic content of input speech from a user is made by detecting keywords in the input speech, with the keywords to be detected in the input speech limited in advance, according to a state of a dialogue between the user and the system.

Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus comprises a speech input unit for receiving an input speech signal, analyzing it, and outputting a speech feature parameter series, a speech recognition unit for extracting a speech feature vector from the parameter series, and matching it with a plurality of predetermined words to output a series of word candidates used as keywords, a syntactic analysis unit for analyzing the series of the word candidates as the keywords according to syntactic limitation, and generating a sentence candidate.

Abstract: A speech dialogue system capable of realizing natural and smooth dialogue between the system and a human user, and easy maneuverability of the system. In the system, a semantic content of input speech from a user is understood and a semantic content determination of a response output is made according to the understood semantic content of the input speech. Then, a speech response and a visual response according to the determined response output are generated and outputted to the user. The dialogue between the system and the user is managed by controlling transitions between user states during which the input speech is to be entered and system states during which the system response is to be outputted. The understanding of a semantic content of input speech from a user is made by detecting keywords in the input speech, with the keywords to be detected in the input speech limited in advance, according to a state of a dialogue between the user and the system.

Abstract: A drawing information presentation apparatus has a memory for storing data representing a plurality of drawings, including text labels, and a concept dictionary memory for storing synonyms and connection relation for terms used in the text labels. A correspondence analysis section analyzes correspondence relation of elements of two drawings by referring to data of the concept dictionary memory. Then, a display section displays elements of a first drawing in a manner which demonstrates those elements of the first drawing which correspond to elements of the second drawing, from those elements of the first drawing which do not so correspond, in accordance with the analysis performed by the correspondence analysis section. The apparatus also comprises a drawing description analysis section for extracting drawing titles from document information, and for analyzing the correspondence relationship of the drawing titles between two drawings, by referring to date of the concept dictionary memory.

Abstract: This invention relates to a casting control system of a die cast machine, and more particularly to a system for controlling a high speed injection real stroke of an injection plunger and controlling valve closing timing for degassing gas in a mold cavity. The high speed injection real stroke is measured by an arithmetic unit from a signal output from a position detector, and the high speed injection real stroke is then compared with a certain preset value. When arithmetic unit determines that the high speed injection real stroke and the preset value do not coincide with each other, a pretest action delay time of the injection plunger is .+-. incrementally or decrementally corrected until both values coincide.

Abstract: A method of and a system for operating a squeeze plunger in a die cast machine. When the fill-up of molten metal in a cavity is completed by an injection plunger, the moving speed of the injection plunger is rapidly decreased. When the speed at this time becomes lower than a preset value, a preset delay time is measured. After a lapse of this delay time, the squeeze plunger is operated to press a molding material in the cavity, so that plastic flows are caused in the molding material.

Abstract: A pattern recognition device is arranged to have learning of a reference pattern vector carried out in a recognition unit by making use of the pause periods in the recognition processing, without particularly providing a learning section for learning the reference pattern vector. Namely, a part or the entirety of the arithmetic processing unit where the recognition result is obtained in the recognition unit by collating the input pattern with the recognition dictionary, can be utilized as the learning portion of the reference pattern vector. In concrete terms, the operation of multiplication-accumulation (inner product) which represents the main operation in the recognition processing and the learning processing, can be carried out by means of similar processes of handling.

Abstract: In apparatus for measuring injection speed of a die cast machine, there are provided a pulse generator responsive to a movement of an injection plunger for producing a pulse signal, a detector for detecting a width of the pulse signal to produce pulse width data, a memory device successively storing the pulse width data between commencement and termination of injection, and an arithmetic operation circuit for calculating an average speed in a predetermined high speed section of a stroke of the injection plunger based on pulse width data stored in the memory device.