Abstract: Upon issuance of an attribute certificate, an attribute authority apparatus makes a determination policy available. The determination policy includes information designating at least one item to be checked by a service provider apparatus for determination to be made to verify the attribute certificate, and a criterion for the determination. The determination policy may be recorded in the attribute certificate, or released to public, or made available by issuing a determination policy certificate released to public. Information for obtaining the determination policy certificate may be recorded in or outside the attribute certificate and furnished to the service provider apparatus. In order to verify an attribute certificate transmitted from a user terminal, a service provider apparatus obtains the determination policy, and determines whether data in the at least one item designated in the determination policy fulfill the criterion recorded in the determination policy.

Abstract: The present invention is a grafted seedling producing apparatus 10 capable of rotating seedlings W in an alignment direction even if they are those having large leaves and thereafter halting the rotation to align them, or the apparatus 10 having loading portions 1, 2 which are provided with a seedling carry-in mechanism 11 for sequentially transporting a tray 7 of a large number of arranged seedlings W, a grip hand 12 for individually gripping stems of seedlings on the seedling carry-in mechanism 11, a cutter mechanism 23 for individually cutting the stems of seedlings gripped by the grip hand 12, an alignment guide 14 for aligning seedlings to be transported by the grip hand 12, a roller 17 for rotating the seedlings W to an alignment direction at the side of the seedling carry-in mechanism 11 from the alignment guide 14, and a transport mechanism 13 for moving the grip hand 12 to the alignment guide side; a retaining mechanism 15 provided with to a main alignment member 16 which regulates a direction to whi

Abstract: An apparatus for managing a printed document includes a storage medium capable of reversibly storing and erasing information, a printing/erasure device for executing printing to the storage medium and erasing a printed record, a document management server for managing information and security of the information, a write device for adding information onto the storage medium, and a monitor device for monitoring takeout of a printed document. A storage medium ID for identifying an individual medium is imparted to each medium. When printing, write, etc, are performed to the storage medium, the document management server manages the storage medium ID and a security level of a printed document file. The monitor device gives a warning not to take out the printed document in accordance with the security level of the document when the storage medium of printed documents is to be taken out.

Abstract: In a thin client system, a PC authentication device which authenticates a client is set in an office of the client. Data existing in a server is printed by using a printer provided in the vicinity of a client PC according to the following steps. (1) The PC authentication device performs authentication with the client PC and acquires an identifier IDa of the client PC. (2) The PC authentication device notifies the server of the identifier IDa of the client PC and an identifier IDb of the PC authentication device. (3) The server registers the printer provided in the office where the PC authentication device having the identifier IDb is set as a printer which can be used by the client PC having the identifier Ida. According to the above-described flow, when the client PC is coupled with the server, the printer can be used.

Abstract: In an electronic component mounting apparatus, a vertical load and horizontal loads applied to an electronic component are detected by a load sensor that has piezoelectric elements provided in a stack in a mounting direction of the electronic component. Therefore, a size in a horizontal direction of the load sensor can be reduced, and a load applied to the electronic component can be detected at a neighborhood of a mounting position of the electronic component. Moreover, by comparing a position, in a two-dimensional space in which load values in an X-direction and Y-direction of the horizontal load serve as coordinate values, with a tolerance range in the two-dimensional space, a mounting failure can be detected from a deviation in the horizontal loads.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide wherein at least one of the amino, carboxyl, mercapto or guanidino group in a polypeptide molecule having human granulocyte colony stimulating factor activity is chemically modified by a chemical modifying agent, and a platelet production promoter comprising said polypeptide, a method for treating a patient with decreased platelet counts comprising administering an effective amount of said polypeptide to the patient, the use of said polypeptide for the production of pharmaceutical compositions which are useful for the treatment of the patient with decreased platelet counts, and the compositions for treating the patient with decreased platelet counts, which comprises an effective dose of said polypeptide in a pharmaceutically acceptable dosage form with a pharmaceutical acceptable carrier.

Abstract: To provide a lubricant for recording medium, which is advantageous not only in that it maintains excellent lubricity under various conditions for use and excellent lubricating effect over a long time, but also in that it can impart excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability. For example, when C18H37—CH(CH2COOC10H6OH)COORf (wherein Rf represents a saturated or unsaturated partially-fluorinated-alkyl group) is used as a lubricant for magnetic recording medium, there can be obtained a magnetic recording medium having excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lubricant capable of holding an excellent lubricating property under various types of service conditions, maintaining a lubricating effect for a long period of time and providing excellent traveling property, abrasion resistance, durability and the like, a recording medium using the lubricant and a carboxylic acid type compound constituting the lubricant.

Abstract: The electronic component mounting apparatus has a board holding part for holding a circuit board, a mounting mechanism for mounting an electronic component on the circuit board, and a grinding part for grinding a suction surface of a suction nozzle of the mounting mechanism. After mounting of the electronic components on the circuit board are repeated a predetermined number of times, the suction surface is ground. In the electronic component mounting apparatus, by continuously moving the suction nozzle in the Y-direction relative to the grinding part and moving the suction nozzle up and down, and bringing the suction surface of the suction nozzle in intermittent contact with the grinding surface of the grinding member with ultrasonic vibrations applied, the suction surface can be ground while preventing the occurrence of a large deformation of the suction nozzle.

Abstract: There are provided a low pressure plasma processing apparatus and method by which a throughput can be improved, film contamination can be effectively prevented, and a film can be readily managed. A film substrate is carried in from the outside of a plasma processing apparatus main body to a substrate carrying position in the plasma processing apparatus main body, the film substrate positioned at the substrate carrying position is carried into a chamber, a reaction gas is introduced while the chamber is being evacuated, high frequency power is applied under low pressure to generate plasma so that plasma processing is performed to remove organic matter from the film substrate, and the film substrate subjected to plasma processing is taken out from the chamber and positioned at a substrate carrying-out position in the plasma processing apparatus main body and carried out of the plasma processing apparatus main body.

Abstract: In the electronic component mounting apparatus, a vertical load and horizontal loads applied to an electronic component are detected by a load sensor that have piezoelectric elements provided in a stack in the mounting direction of the electronic component. Therefore, the size in the horizontal direction of the load sensor can be reduced, and the load applied to the electronic component can be detected at the neighborhood of the mounting position of the electronic component. Moreover, by comparing a position in a two-dimensional space in which the load values in the X-direction and the Y-direction of the horizontal load are served as coordinate values with a tolerance range in the two-dimensional space, mounting failure can be detected from a deviation in the horizontal loads.

Abstract: There are provided a low pressure plasma processing apparatus and method by which a throughput can be improved, film contamination can be effectively prevented, and a film can be readily managed. A film substrate is carried in from the outside of a plasma processing apparatus main body to a substrate carrying position in the plasma processing apparatus main body, the film substrate positioned at the substrate carrying position is carried into a chamber, a reaction gas is introduced while the chamber is being evacuated, high frequency power is applied under low pressure to generate plasma so that plasma processing is performed to remove organic matter from the film substrate, and the film substrate subjected to plasma processing is taken out from the chamber and positioned at a substrate carrying-out position in the plasma processing apparatus main body and carried out of the plasma processing apparatus main body.

Abstract: To provide a lubricant for recording medium, which is advantageous not only in that it maintains excellent lubricity under various conditions for use and excellent lubricating effect over a long time, but also in that it can impart excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability. For example, when C18H37—CH(CH2COOC10H6OH)COORf (wherein Rf represents a saturated or unsaturated partially-fluorinated-alkyl group) is used as a lubricant for magnetic recording medium, there can be obtained a magnetic recording medium having excellent transport properties and excellent abrasion resistance as well as excellent durability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically modified polypeptide in which at least one of hydroxyl groups in the polypeptide molecule is modified with a polyalkylene glycol derivative; a method for producing the modified polypeptide; a method of treatment using the modified polypeptide; use of the modified polypeptide; a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the modified polypeptide; and a composition for treatment comprising the modified polypeptide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically modified polypeptide in which at least one of hydroxyl groups in the polypeptide molecule is modified with a polyalkylene glycol derivative; a method for producing the modified polypeptide; a method of treatment using the modified polypeptide; use of the modified polypeptide; a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the modified polypeptide; and a composition for treatment comprising the modified polypeptide.

Abstract: A microscopic analysis apparatus for analysis of infrared single beam spectrum is composed of an interference light source unit, a measuring unit, and a signal processing unit. The measuring unit is configured such that a semi-spherical prism made from germanium, an incident angle varying device composed of a pair of opposed parabolic mirrors, and a detector for sensing light totally reflected from the surface of a sample are provided in an enclosed sample chamber. According to the method using the analysis apparatus, a profile of a concentration of an organic lubricant contained in a sample in the depth direction of the sample is measured by bringing the surface on the magnetic layer formation side of a floppy disk as the sample into press-contact on the bottom surface of the prism at a low pressure, scanning an incident angle of an infrared light ray on the prism, and analyzing the spectrum of the infrared light ray totally reflected from the surface of the sample.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chemically modified polypeptide in which at least one of hydroxyl groups in the polypeptide molecule is modified with a polyalkylene glycol derivative; a method for producing the modified polypeptide; a method of treatment using the modified polypeptide; use of the modified polypeptide; a pharmaceutical preparation comprising the modified polypeptide; and a composition for treatment comprising the modified polypeptide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polypeptide wherein at least one of the amino, carboxyl, mercapto or guanidino group in a polypeptide molecule having human granulocyte colony stimulating factor activity is chemically modified by a chemical modifying agent, and a platelet production promoter comprising said polypeptide, a method for treating a patient with decreased platelet counts comprising administering an effective amount of said polypeptide to the patient, the use of said polypeptide for the production of pharmaceutical compositions which are useful for the treatment of the patient with decreased platelet counts, and the compositions for treating the patient with decreased platelet counts, which comprises an effective dose of said polypeptide in a pharmaceutically acceptable dosage form with a pharmaceutical acceptable carrier.

Abstract: This invention provides a magnetic recording medium which, even when the friction time is prolonged or the scan speed is increased to achieve a long time recording, will leave no burnt matters onto a magnetic head, reduce spacing loss, and prevent an increase in error rate. This invention also provides a cleaning tape which, without causing any wear and damage of a magnetic head, will remove the head of burnt matters adherent thereto.They are actually a magnetic recording medium and cleaning tape which hold an antiseize agent containing a compound with a pyridine skeleton and two or more ligand sites. Alternatively, they are a magnetic recording medium and cleaning tape which hold an antiseize agent containing a diketone compound. The antiseize agent may contain a titanium coupling agent, carboxylic acid, and phosphor-containing compound, in addition to the above compound.

Abstract: In a step of spinning a molten mesophase pitch in a process for manufacturing a pitch-type carbon fiber, the pitch is allowed to pass through an orifice and to be contracted once, is then expanded in an introduction port with a diameter greater than that of the orifice, and is then allowed to pass through an outlet pore formed at a collecting portion to spin the pitch. The pitch-type carbon fiber has a high elastic modulus in tension and high compressive strength.