Abstract: This invention provides cyclicamino-phenyl sulfamate derivatives represented by a formula wherein each of R1 and R2 stands for hydrogen or lower alkyl; each of R3 and R4 stands for hydrogen, halogen, cyano or the like; A stands for nitrogen or CH; B stands for CH2, SO2, CO, optionally substituted phenyl or the like; and R5 stands for alkyl, phenyl, amino or the like, or salts thereof which exhibit excellent steroid sulfatase inhibitory activity and are useful for prevention or treatment of diseases associated with steroids such as estrogen, androgen and the like.

Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes: a light emitting element including a laminated body, an electrode provided on the laminated body, and a pad electrode provided on the electrode, the laminated body including a semiconductor light emitting layer; a mounting member having a metal bonding layer; and an alloy solder containing gold for bonding the pad electrode to the metal bonding layer. The pad electrode has at least a first gold layer provided on the electrode and being thicker than the electrode and a first metal barrier layer provided on the first gold layer, and the melting point of the alloy solder is lower than the melting point of alloys with elements constituting the first metal barrier layer and the alloy solder.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a substrate of a first conductivity type; a laminated body of a nitride semiconductor provided on the substrate and including at least an active layer and a cladding layer, the cladding layer being of a second conductivity type and having a ridge-shaped waveguide; a first film provided on one end surface of an optical resonator composed of the laminated body, the first film having a reflectance of 40% or more and 60% or less; and a second film provided on the other end surface of the optical resonator and having a higher reflectance than the first film. The optical resonator has a length of 400 ?m or less. The one end surface serves as a light emitting surface.

Abstract: In a semiconductor-fabrication equipment of a minienvironment system, ambient air is prevented from entering a gap between an opening of the semiconductor-fabrication equipment and a wafer gateway of a hermetic container to prevent dust entrained in the ambient air from adhering to wafers in the hermetic container.

Abstract: In the global information sharing and distributing service system, the public use of idle resources can be propelled and sufficient security can be guaranteed on the resources for private use. A node machine configuring an information network includes resources located in a private zone available to private use, resources located in a public zone for public service use, and a private resource security management unit for management of the security of the resources located in the private zone.

Abstract: An air-purifying device for a front-opening unified pod to purify the air in it is provided. The air in the front-opening unified pod 51 is sucked through one of its breathing holes 58a and directed into an air-purifying device (M) that includes a fan-driving means 1, a dust-filtering means 2, and a chemical-filtering means 3. The moisture, chemical gases, and dust in the air are removed by the air-purifying device (M), and then the purified air is forced into the front-opening unified pod 51 through the other breathing hole 58b. Thus the air in the front-opening unified pod 51 is purified, and its purity is maintained by circulating the air.

Abstract: A cup holder includes a holder body, a supporting member having a retained end and a swinging end, a first retaining member inhibiting the supporting member from moving upward, a first urging member urging the supporting member so as to swing and direct the swinging end upward, a second retaining member disposed movably to the first retaining member in an up/down direction, and a second urging member urging the second retaining member upward. The supporting member's swinging end supports a container. Upon being pressed by the retained end of the supporting member, the second retaining member descends, thereby enabling the swinging end of the supporting member to swing in an up/down direction. Thus, a user can take a constricted container out of the cup holder without ever interfering the container's constriction with the supporting member.

Abstract: A lubricant is provided that can form a sufficiently thin one-molecule film surface even when it is highly polymerized. When used for a magnetic recording medium lubricant layer and/or a head slider lubricant layer of a magnetic recording device, it can make the film thickness of the lubricant layers very small, with the result that it can furnish an increased reliability to the magnetic recording device in a wide temperature-range environment without damaging the flying stability. This lubricant comprises a fluorine-containing polymer having a specific structure. Such a fluorine-containing polymer can be manufactured by reacting a compound having a specific structure and 1,3-butadiene diepoxide.

Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a special successive shooting mode wherein an imaging device makes a series of successive shots upon each shutter release operation, including at least a non-flash shot and at least a flash shot. When a shutter button is pressed halfway in the successive shooting mode, an exposure condition deciding device decides an exposure condition common to the non-flash and flash shots, or individual exposure conditions for the non-flash shot and the flash shot. When the shutter button is fully pressed, the imaging device starts the successive shots of one series. Images captured by the non-flash shot and the flash shot are displayed on an LCD panel. Before the imaging device starts the successive shots, necessary warning marks are displayed together with the exposure conditions decided by the exposure condition deciding device.

Abstract: A cup holder includes a holder body, an inner-peripheral-side supporting member, a first urging member, an outer-peripheral-side supporting member, and a second urging member. The holder body has an accommodation portion. The first urging member urges the inner-peripheral-side supporting member rotatably upward to a first datum position. The second urging member urges the outer-peripheral-side supporting member rotatably upward to a second datum position. The first rotary shaft-center of the inner-peripheral-side supporting member, which is located at the first datum position, being disposed at a position, which is displaced by a predetermined magnitude toward an imaginary center of the accommodation portion of the holder body with respect to the second rotary shaft-center of the outer-peripheral-side supporting member, which is located at the second datum position.

Abstract: In the processing device in accordance with the present invention, a plurality of divided circuits obtained by dividing one circuit are successively configured on a reconfigurable circuit, an operation is executed by the divided circuits by feeding back an output of one divided circuit to a next divided circuit, and an output is taken out from the last configured divided circuit. As a feedback path, a path portion is formed, which connects the output of the reconfigurable circuit to its input. By successively configuring the divided circuits, one circuit as a whole can be implemented.

Abstract: A policy that relates attributes of an agent to a role is distributed to each agent on a network. A field connector generates an internal field in accordance with an instruction of a security manager. A ROLE manager uses attribute information from an attribute manager, and assigns each agent a ROLE in accordance with the attributes of each agent, and installs a ROLE method table and a ROLE execution part. When receiving a message from an external network, each agent searches for a corresponding ROLE by referring to the ROLE method table, and executes the ROLE. Thus, collaboration among agents is realized through a virtual communication channel by means of the exchange of a message.

Abstract: A polarizing element usable for two wavelengths in a predetermined wavelength region and having a simple structure. The polarizing element has a two-layer structure in which a grid pattern of a constant period ? having a triangular cross-section is formed on a substrate and a film with a refractive index higher than that of the substrate is deposited on the grid pattern. When first and second wavelengths ?1, ?2 satisfy ?1<?2, ? cos ?0<?1 where ?0 is the angle of incidence on the grid surface.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a container body, a lid member with an arm, a shaft, an urging member, and a slot. The container body has a top opening. The lid member opens and closes the top opening of the container body, and is held swingably to the container body. The arm extends downward from the lid member. The shaft supports the arm pivotably to the container body, and is fitted into the slot so as to pivotably hold the arm. The urging member urges the lid member upward. The slot extends up-and-downward. Moreover, the container body further has a receiver. The receiver is brought into contact with the lid member so as to support the lid member when the pivotably-supporting shaft moves relatively within the slot so as to move the lid member downward. Therefore, the arm and pivotably-supporting shaft hardly deform because no excessive load acts onto them.

Abstract: In the method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, via holes and first trenches to form air gaps are concurrently formed in a first insulating film on a semiconductor substrate and a second insulating film is formed thereon. Thereafter, the second insulating film lying outside the area corresponding to the regions where the first trenches to form air gaps are formed is partially removed to form trenches for wiring by using a mask. A plurality of wirings are formed by filling in the trenches for wiring with a metal film. The second insulating film remaining in the regions where the first trenches to form air gaps are formed is then removed to form second trenches to form air gaps. Subsequently, in forming a third insulating film, air gaps are formed within the second trenches to form air gap.

Abstract: This invention provides cyclicamino-phenyl sulfamate derivatives represented by a formula wherein each of R1 and R2 stands for hydrogen or lower alkyl; each of R3 and R4 stands for hydrogen, halogen, cyano or the like; A stands for nitrogen or CH; B stands for CH2, SO2, CO, optionally substituted phenyl or the like; and R5 stands for alkyl, phenyl, amino or the like, or salts thereof which exhibit excellent steroid sulfatase inhibitory activity and are useful for prevention or treatment of diseases associated with steroids such as estrogen, androgen and the like.

Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes a cylinder-shaped retainer having opposite inner surfaces, a fin assembly including a plurality of fin members disposed in the retainer, a first connector connecting the fin members, a second connector, and a guide guiding the second connector on a predetermined track. The fin members includes paired fin members disposed in proximity to the opposite inner surfaces of the retainer, at least one of the paired fin members swinging by a swing angle smaller than that of all of the other fin members, and functioning as a dummy fin member keeping a constant angle independently within a predetermined swing-angle range where all of the other fin members swing. The second connector connects the dummy fin member and all of the other fin members while absorbing a swing-angle difference between the dummy fin member and all of the other fin members.

Abstract: In a semiconductor-fabrication equipment of a minienvironment system, ambient air is prevented from entering a gap between an opening of the semiconductor-fabrication equipment and a wafer gateway of a hermetic container to prevent dust entrained in the ambient air from adhering to wafers in the hermetic container.

Abstract: A data flow graph processing method divides a program describing target operations into two or more subprograms and converts each of the two or more subprograms into a data flow graph (DFG) representing dependency in execution between operations carried out in sequence. Also generated is flow data indicating the order of execution of DFGs corresponding to respective subprograms. DFGs are converted into configuration data and the flow data is converted into control data.

Abstract: An object collaboration apparatus is driven by a message action relation, and can dynamically build a collaboration between objects using a bidding system. A task initiator object circulates a requesting message, indicating the service content that the task initiator object wants to request, on a shared communication channel 504, and this requesting message is received by each service object. If an action that is a reaction to the message is listed in a reaction table 703 stored by the service objects, the service objects create and return a bidding message, which includes a bidding value, for example the CPU load ratio, with the bidding portion 707. An arbitrating portion of the initiator object receives all bidding messages in a certain period of time, and, in consideration of parameters such as the bidding value and the communication time between objects, determines and awards the bid to the bid-winning object. Then, it sends out the requested processing information together with the bid awarding message.