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.

Abstract: A vehicle-use bearing device having a double row rolling bearing fitted around an outer peripheral surface of a hollow shaft portion of a hub wheel, wherein a held portion between an axially intermediate position and a vehicle outer side in the hollow shaft portion of the hub wheel is axially held between the axially intermediate position of an outer ring shaft portion of a constant velocity joint and the vehicle outer side so that a cup-shaped cylindrical portion of an outer ring of the constant velocity joint is free of contact with a caulked portion in the hollow shaft portion of the hub wheel at the shaft end on the vehicle inner side in order to connect the hub wheel with the constant velocity joint without a clearance, whereby an excessive preload which can affect a rolling performance of the double row rolling bearing is not imparted on the bearing.

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 comprises 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 reconfigurable circuit of reduced circuit scale. The reconfigurable circuit of the present invention comprises a plurality of ALUs capable of changing functions. The plurality of ALUs are arranged in a matrix. At least one connection unit capable of establishing connection between the ALUs selectively is provided between the stages of the ALUs. This connection unit is not intended to allow connection between all the logic circuits in adjoining stages, but is configured so that the logic circuits are each connectable with only some of the logic circuits pertaining to the other stages. The connection limitation allows a reduction in circuit scale.

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 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 object collaboration apparatus is presented, in which driving is performed in accordance with message/action reaction relations, and the collaboration among objects can be changed in a flexible and dynamical manner. A message/action reaction relation in a message/action reaction table 103 of a message/action reaction relation storage portion 102 storing relations between messages and information on actions that are reactions to the messages is separated with a message/action reaction relation separation portion 106 of a message/action reaction relation update control portion 105, and a new message/action relation is organized with a message/action reaction relation organizing portion 107.

Abstract: The invention has been made to present a diffraction gating that has antireflection function for a broad band of lights and is easy to produce.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser chip has an emission facet for emitting a laser beam. A sub-mount has a first surface and at least one second surface vertical to the first surface. The semiconductor laser chip is provided on the first surface of the sub-mount. The second surface arranged in line with the emission facet of the semiconductor laser chip is inclined at an angle of 3 to 30 degrees. The inclined second surface reflects reflection light of a sub-beam diffracted from a main beam emitted by the semiconductor laser chip.

Abstract: In the method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, via holes and first trenches to form an air gap 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 an air gap 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 an air gap are formed is then removed to form second trenches to form an air gap. Subsequently, in forming a third insulating film, air gaps are formed within the second trenches to form an air gap.

Abstract: Phenyl sulfamate derivatives represented by the following formula or salts thereof have a powerful inhibitory effect on steroid sulfatase and are hence useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of diseases associated with steroids such as estrogens, such as breast cancer, corpus uteri cancer, endometrial hyperplasia, infertility, endometriosis, adenomyosis uteri, autoimmune disease, dementia or Alzheimer's disease. wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a lower alkyl group, —OSO2NR1R2, a lower alkanoylamino group, a nitro group or a cyano group; and A represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, a group of the formula —X—NR4R5, or the like.

Abstract: A plurality of user terminals regularly accessing Internet Relay Chat (IRC) services are also in communication with a service selecting host. The service selecting host is configured to collect data from the plurality of user terminals. The collected data includes information about the users at the user terminals and information about the user terminals activity in the accessing of the IRC services. The service selecting host compiles and sorts the collected data concerning IRC services to produce information provided to the user terminals. The information provided to the user terminals allows users at the user terminals to more easily select sorted IRC services.

Abstract: An object cooperative network system for executing processing in cooperation between objects connected by a common communication path. Each of the objects includes a transmitting section to transmit messages that include predetermined information to the network system. In addition, each object includes a monitoring section to monitor the predetermined information of the transmitted messages, and a reaction table to indicate correspondence between the transmitted messages. Each of the objects sets information to which the object should respond in the monitoring section, and receives a message to execute processing by making reference to the reaction table when information to which the object should respond is detected.

Abstract: A monolithic two-wavelength semiconductor laser device includes a front end face film 19 on a resonator front end face 18, and a high-reflectivity end face film 22 as a multilayered film on a resonator rear end face 21. The front end face film 19 is formed using a low-refractive-index material, and the film thickness is so set that the reflectivity is 20%. The high-reflectivity end face film 22 is formed by alternately stacking thin films of low- and high-refractive-index materials, and the film thickness is so set that the reflectivity is 80%. The film thickness of each of these two end face films is calculated by an optical length d=(1/4+j)×&lgr;m by using a mean value &lgr;m=(&lgr;1+&lgr;2)/2 of the oscillation wavelengths of the two semiconductor laser diodes.

Abstract: A vehicle-use bearing device having a double row rolling bearing fitted around an outer peripheral surface of a hollow shaft portion of a hub wheel, wherein a held portion between an axially intermediate position and a vehicle outer side in the hollow shaft portion of the hub wheel is axially held between the axially intermediate position of an outer ring shaft portion of a constant velocity joint and the vehicle outer side so that a cup-shaped cylindrical portion of an outer ring of the constant velocity joint is free of contact with a caulked portion in the hollow shaft portion of the hub wheel at the shaft end on the vehicle inner side in order to connect the hub wheel with the constant velocity joint without a clearance, whereby an excessive preload which can affect a rolling performance of the double row rolling bearing is not imparted on the bearing.

Abstract: A semiconductor laser of present invention is constructed by an aluminium oxide (Al2O3) film on an end surface opposed to a beam emission surface of the semiconductor laser, a silicon nitride (SiNx, or Si3N4) film on the aluminium oxide film, and a silicon oxide (SiO2) film on the silicon nitride film. These films are made successively by a method of Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) sputtering.

Abstract: A monolithic two-wavelength semiconductor laser device includes a front end face film 19 on a resonator front end face 18, and a high-reflectivity end face film 22 as a multilayered film on a resonator rear end face 21. The front end face film 19 is formed using a low-refractive-index material, and the film thickness is so set that the reflectivity is 20%. The high-reflectivity end face film 22 is formed by alternately stacking thin films of low- and high-refractive-index materials, and the film thickness is so set that the reflectivity is 80%. The film thickness of each of these two end face films is calculated by an optical length d=(¼+j)×&lgr;m by using a mean value &lgr;m=(&lgr;1+&lgr;2)/2 of the oscillation wavelengths of the two semiconductor laser diodes.

Abstract: An object cooperative network system for executing processing in cooperation between objects connected by a common communication path. Each of the objects includes a transmitting section to transmit messages that include predetermined information to the network system. In addition, each object includes a monitoring section to monitor the predetermined information of the transmitted messages, and a reaction table to indicate correspondence between the transmitted messages. Each of the objects sets information to which the object should respond in the monitoring section, and receives a message to execute processing by making reference to the reaction table when information to which the object should respond is detected.

Abstract: Each object belonging to a network manages loaded functions in a function managing section. The function managing section generates an argument type table that provides correspondences between the functions and argument types, and stores the same in an argument type table section. When a message input/output section receives a structured message that runs through the network, an argument type matching section executes a matching process between an argument type of the received message and argument types of the functions in the argument type table in the argument type table section. In the case where the matching between the argument types is established, an executing section is notified of the matching, activates a corresponding function from the function managing section, and executes the same. This increases freedom of collaboration between objects connected to a network, thereby allowing object collaboration to be constructed irrespective of object interfaces.

Abstract: In a construction in which a double row rolling bearing and a constant velocity joint are mounted to a hub wheel, a fixing ring fixedly mounted to a vehicle-outer side opening of the hub wheel is sandwiched between a vehicle-outer side end face of an outer ring shaft of the constant velocity joint and a bolt integrally mounted to the shaft in the axial direction, thereby coupling the outer ring of the constant velocity joint to the hub wheel. In this case, a simple coupling operation only for mounting the bolt to the shaft suffices, and a pre-load that has been applied to the rolling bearing is maintained invariably.