Abstract: There are provided in a rate control command a clock rate select subfunction (SYNC SELECT) to which a digital signal receiver side corresponds, a base rate set subfunction (BASE CONFIGURE), a flow rate control (FLOW CONTROL) subfunction, and a capability inquiry subfunction (CAPABILITY INQUIRY). The CAPABILITY INQUIRY subfunction is used to send to a transmitter side a clock rate select state (SYNC SELECT), base rate set state (BASE CONFIGURE), flow rate control state (FLOW CONTROL) . Thereby, a digital signal can be transmitted between specific units positively and successfully.

Abstract: A searching apparatus and a searching method are disclosed whereby a storage medium containing a plurality of data items and management data for managing these data items is subjected to a sort based on a sort condition and a search based on a search condition. The data retrieved through the search are displayed in accordance with a given condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus along with a method for displaying a list of data to be transferred from one storage area to another in conjunction with a progress status report of the data transfer, thereby allowing users to know at a glance how far the transfer of desired data has progressed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a processing method and a processing apparatus for processing a plurality of files stored on a storage medium.

Abstract: A steam-generating warming article 1 which has a steam generating element 2 making use of chemical energy and is adapted to supply steam while in contact with a human body. The article 1, while in contact with the body, maintains the skin surface temperature at 38° to 49° C. for 3 to 15 hours and cumulatively generates 0.5 to 12 mg/3 hr·cm2 of steam. The steam-generating warning article 1 is used to improve the human body's physiology. The steam generating element 2 is preferably a heat generating sheet prepared by incorporating an aqueous electrolyte solution into a molded sheet containing an oxidizable metal, a reaction accelerator, and a fibrous material.

Abstract: In a network of an IEEE 1394 system or the like, a data transmission rate can be properly controlled by an apparatus to receive the transmitted data. An apparatus for transmitting data is set as a first apparatus and each of one or more apparatus for receiving the transmitted data from the first apparatus is set as an external apparatus. The number of the external apparatuses to which the data are to be transmitted is indicated. A transmission speed is varied upon receipt of a control command from one of the external apparatuses to which a control right is given. The control right is returned when the control command is not given from the external apparatuses to which the data are transmitted for a predetermined period of time. The control right is returned to the first apparatus if there are a plurality of apparatuses to receive the data from the first apparatus.

Abstract: There are provided in a rate control command a clock rate select subfunction (SYNC SELECT) to which a digital signal receiver side corresponds, a base rate subfunction (BASE CONFIGURE), a flow rate control (FLOW CONTROL) subfunction, and a capability inquiry subfunction (CAPABILITY INQUIRY). The CAPABILITY INQUIRY subfunction is used to send to a transmitter side a clock rate select state (SYNC SELECT), base rate set state (BASE CONFIGURE), and flow rate control state (FLOW CONTROL). Thereby, a digital signal can be transmitted between specific units positively and successfully.

Abstract: There are provided in a rate control command a clock rate select subfunction (SYNC SELECT) to which a digital signal receiver side corresponds, a base rate set subfunction (BASE CONFIGURE), a flow rate control (FLOW CONTROL) subfunction, and a capability inquiry subfunction (CAPABILITY INQUIRY). The CAPABILITY INQUIRY subfunction is used to send to a transmitter side a clock rate select state (SYNC SELECT), base rate set state (BASE CONFIGURE), flow rate control state (FLOW CONTROL) . Thereby, a digital signal can be transmitted between specific units positively and successfully.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to arrange so that the digital signal transmission between specific equipments connected with each other by the transmission line of a fixed standard can be performed securely and satisfactorily. When a digital signal destination is caused to receive a fixed digital signal sent out of a digital signal sender, the digital signal destination acquires at the request of the destination from the digital signal sender data on modes in which the digital signal sender is able to send out the digital signal, and a transmission mode of the digital signal is caused to be set by a command based on the acquired mode data from the digital signal destination. Moreover, when a digital signal destination is caused to receive a fixed digital signal sent out of a digital signal sender, a flag is added to the digital signal sent out of the digital signal sender, which indicates that the transmission rate is being adjusted based on the command from the digital signal destination.

Abstract: A searching apparatus and a searching method are disclosed whereby a storage medium containing a plurality of data items and management data for managing these data items is subjected to a sort based on a sort condition and a search based on a search condition. The data retrieved through the search are displayed in accordance with a given condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus along with a method for displaying a list of data to be transferred from one storage area to another in conjunction with a progress status report of the data transfer, thereby allowing users to know at a glance how far the transfer of desired data has progressed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a processing method and a processing apparatus for processing a plurality of files stored on a storage medium.

Abstract: Substrate processing apparatus and method, by which an outside air and a gas-phase backward flow are restrained from entering the inside of a reaction chamber during the inside of a reaction chamber is opened to the outside through a substrate carrying-in/carrying-out opening. This substrate processing apparatus, for example, a vertical CVD apparatus (200) has a gas supply system (240) and a bypass line (264). The gas supply system (240) supplies an inert gas to a space (3a) between an outer tube (1A) and an inner tube (2A) of a reaction furnace (211) in a boat loading term and a boat unloading term. The bypass line (264) exhausts an atmosphere from a reaction chamber (1a) by performing a slow exhaust operation in the boat loading term and the boat unloading term.

Abstract: An aluminosilicate in an acicular form, a platy form, or a columnar form and having the composition represented by aM2O.bAl2O3.cSiO2.dRmAn.yH2O, wherein M is at least one of Na and K; R is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Ca and Mg; A is one or more members selected from the group consisting of CO3, SO4, NO3, OH and Cl; a is from 1 to 6; b is from 2 to 8; c is from 2 to 12; d is from 0 to 4; m is from 1 to 2; n is from 1 to 3; and y is from 0 to 32; a polishing agent including the aluminosilicate; and a detergent composition including the aluminosilicate.

Abstract: A method for producing a crystalline inorganic builder having the following composition in its anhydrous form: xM.sub.2 O.ySiO.sub.2.zMeO, wherein x, y and z are numerical values satisfying the following relationships: y/x is 1.0 to 4.0, z/y is not more than 1.0, M stands for Na and K, K/Na is 0.01 to 2.0, and Me stands for Ca and/or Mg, the method comprising the steps of (a) adding water, a Na-containing compound, a K-containing compound, and at least one member of Ca-containing compounds and Mg-containing compounds to silica sand, to give a mixture; (b) subjecting the resulting mixture to a hydrothermal treatment; and (c) baking the resulting treated mixture. Also, a method for producing a crystalline inorganic builder having the following composition in its anhydrous form: xM.sub.2 O.ySiO.sub.2, wherein x and y are numerical values satisfying the following relationships: y/x is 1.0 to 4.0, M stands for Na and K, K/Na is 0.01 to 2.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus and method restrains outside air and gas-phase backward flow from entering the inside of a reaction chamber during a time period that the inside of the reaction chamber is opened to the outside through a substrate carrying-in/carrying-out opening. The substrate processing apparatus can comprise, for example, a vertical CVD apparatus having a gas supply system and a bypass line. The gas supply system supplies inert gas to a space between an outer tube and an inner tube of a reaction furnace during a boat loading period and a boat unloading period. The bypass line exhausts the atmosphere from the reaction chamber by a slow exhaust operation during the boat loading period and the boat unloading period.

Abstract: The method for producing a crystalline, inorganic ion exchange material having the following composition: xM.sub.2 O.ySiO.sub.2.zMeO, wherein x, y and z are numerical values satisfying the relationships of y/x=0.5 to 2.1, preferably 0.5 to 2.0, and z/y=0.001 to 1.0; M stands for Na and K, wherein K/Na is in the range from 0.01 to 1.2; and Me stands for Ca and/or Mg, the method including the steps of adding 1 to 85 parts by weight of water to 100 parts by weight of cullets, wherein the cullets have the following compositon: xM.sub.2 O.ySiO.sub.2 .multidot.zMeO, wherein x, y, z, M, and Me are defined as above, and then baking the resulting mixture.

Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including a heating device; a reaction tube disposed within the heating device, the reaction tube having a gas inlet portion and an exhaust portion parted from each other by a predetermined distance in the longitudinal direction of the reaction tube; and a plurality of gas feed pipes extending along a side wall of the reaction tube from the exhaust portion side to the gas inlet portion, the plurality of gas feed pipes being parted from each other. The reaction gas is provided through the plurality of gas feed pipes into the reaction tube, thereby providing an improved uniform temperature distribution within the reaction tube and resulting in an improved uniform film thickness of the oxide film formed on the surface of the semiconductor wafer.

Abstract: This invention relates to nitrogen-containing aromatic 5-membered ring-condensed benzazepine derivatives represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## (symbols in the formula have the following meanings; ring B: a nitrogen-containing aromatic 5-membered ring having at least 1 nitrogen atom and optionally one oxygen or sulfur atom, which may optionally have substituent(s), R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 : these may be the same or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an amino group which may optionally be substituted by lower alkyl group(s), or a lower alkoxy group,A: a single bond; a group represented by the formula --NHCO--(CR.sup.3 R.sup.4).sub.n --,n: 0 or an integer of from 1 to 3,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 : these may be the same or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group (provided that R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: This invention relates to nitrogen-containing aromatic 5-membered ring-condensed benzazepine derivatives represented by the general formula (I) ##STR1## (symbols in the formula have the following meanings; ring B: a nitrogen-containing aromatic 5-membered ring having at least 1 nitrogen atom and optionally one oxygen or sulfur atom, which may optionally have substituent(s), R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 : these may be the same or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, an amino group which may optionally be substituted by lower alkyl group(s), or a lower alkoxy group,A: a single bond; a group represented by the formula--NHCO--(CR.sup.3 R.sup.4).sub.n --,n: 0 or an integer of from 1 to 3,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 : these may be the same or different from each other and each represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group (provided that R.sup.3 and R.sup.