Abstract: A first cam mechanism 8 is provided between outer portions of opposite surfaces of a rotor 2 and a piston 3. A shaft portion 2c is integrally formed in a central portion of the opposite surface of the rotor 2 opposed to the piston 3. A pair of outwardly projecting portions 9a, 9a are formed in an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion 2c. A through hole 3a in which the shaft portion 2c is inserted is formed in the piston 3. A pair of inwardly projecting portions 9b, 9b are formed in an inner peripheral surface of the through hole 3a. The outwardly projecting portions 9a, 9a are arranged such that each of the outwardly projecting portions 9a can pass through a gap between the inwardly projecting portions 9b, 9b and the inwardly projecting portions 9b, 9b are arranged such that each of the inwardly projecting portions 9b can pass through a gap between the outwardly projecting portions 9a, 9a.

Abstract: A programmable display device selects and displays one screen data item from one of screen data groups each constituted of a plurality of screen data items indicative of control conditions. Further, the programmable display device includes a selection information forming section and a screen data group setting section. The selection information forming section is included in a project setting processing section, and based on screen data group information concerning the screen data groups, forms selection information by which one of the screen data groups is selected. The screen data group setting section is included in the project setting processing section, and sets, as a screen data group to be used, the one of the screen data groups which is selected based on the selection information.

Abstract: In a rotary damper 1 including a cam surface 3f formed in a lower end surface of a large-diameter portion 3b of a rotor 3 and including a cam surface 4f formed in an upper end surface of a piston 4, the cam surface 4f being capable of contacting the cam surface 3f, the cam surfaces 3f, 4f pressed to contact each other by a coil spring 9 biasing the piston 4, the piston 4 is prohibited from being moved toward the large-diameter portion 3b beyond a predetermined second position. Coil spring 9 does not rotationally bias the piston 4. The coil spring 9 biases the piston 4 only such that the piston 4 approaches the large-diameter portion 3b.

Abstract: A catheter comprises a tubular body portion (11) including an elongate portion (13) made of a transparent material, and at least one substantially linear contrast-radiography portion (14a, 14b) made of an X-ray opaque material and extending in the longitudinal direction of the elongate portion. The body portion (11) is hollow to allow passage of a liquid therethrough. A majority of the transparent material is composed of an aromatic polyurethane, while the material forming the at least one contrast-radiography portion (14a, 14b) is a mixture composed at least mainly of the X-ray opaque material and an aliphatic polyurethane.

Abstract: A system and method for permitting a consumer to compare premium estimates form a plurality of insurance providers based on inputting conditions which affect the premium calculation a single time to a network such as the Internet. A user initiates a session by connecting his computer to an insurance comparison website provided by a service underwriter. The user inputs various conditions which might affect the premium for a desired insurance product. The user inputs condition data to condition input screen and sends the condition data to the service underwriter. The service underwriter converts the condition data into a form suitable for a standard interface and sends the formatted data to computers of one or more participating and user selected insurance companies or underwriters. A premium calculation engine at the computer for each insurance company calculates an estimated premium. This, and other pertinent insurance policy data, is displayed to the user.

Abstract: A method and system for providing a user with insurance premium estimates from insurance providers for an insurance product. Insurance providers for the insurance product are selected by the user. Conditions input indicating conditions effecting the insurance premiums are transmitted from the user's computer to a service computer. The service computer converts the conditions input into a standard format suitable to a common interface and sends the converted conditions input to the user's computer. The converted conditions input is sent from the user's computer to the selected insurance providers without passing through or interacting with the service computer while being sent from the user's computer to the selected insurance providers. The insurance premium estimates from the selected insurance providers are received by the user's computer and displayed on a display unit of the user's computer in accordance with the conditions input and the selected insurance providers.

Abstract: A programmable display device selects and displays one screen data item from one of screen data groups each constituted of a plurality of screen data items indicative of control conditions. Further, the programmable display device includes a selection information forming section and a screen data group setting section. The selection information forming section is included in a project setting processing section, and based on screen data group information concerning the screen data groups, forms selection information by which one of the screen data groups is selected. The screen data group setting section is included in the project setting processing section, and sets, as a screen data group to be used, the one of the screen data groups which is selected based on the selection information.

Abstract: A game machine capable of providing proper expected values. The game machine is provided with a prize decision table to be applied to a game in an ordinary probability game state and a prize decision table to be applied to a game in a high probability game state. The former and latter prize decision tables are stored with at least data of numbers of lottery random numbers for providing basis of the individual lottery probabilities for individual prize modes. By increasing the number of lottery random numbers for a predetermined mode in the high probability game state but by decreasing the number of lottery random numbers for another mode, the prize probability of the predetermined mode is enhanced, and an expected value to be obtained in the high probability game state is set to a proper expected value or less.

Abstract: A technique for permitting a consumer to compare premium estimates form a plurality of insurance providers based on inputting conditions which affect the premium calculation a single time to a network such as the Internet. A consumer or user initiates a session by connecting his computer to an insurance comparison website provided by a service underwriter. The user inputs various conditions which might affect the premium for a desired insurance product. The user inputs trial-calculation condition data to a predetermined input button or field of the trial-calculation condition input screen and sends the condition data to the service underwriter. The service underwriter converts the condition data into a form suitable for a standard interface and sends the formatted data to computers of one or more participating and user selected insurance companies or underwriters. A premium calculation engine at the computer for each insurance company calculates an estimated premium.

Abstract: A method of preparing oxoquazepam which comprises reacting 2,2,2-trifluoroethyl trifluoromethanesulfonate with 7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-5-(2-fluorophenyl)-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one in tetrahydrofuran or ethyl acetate in the presence of potassium carbonate under reflux. According to the method of the present invention, high purity oxoquazepam can be manufactured in high yields.

Abstract: A game machine display testing apparatus reduces man-hours required to test a newly developed or altered game machine display to a great extent. A library (14) generates commands as transmission data to be transmitted to a game machine display 200. The transmission data is displayed on a table provided on a transmission data display unit 38 so that required data can be selected. The selected data is transmitted to the game machine display 200. An image formation CPU emulation unit 16 executes an image formation program that is held in an image formation program holder 17. The image formation program extracts required data from the image data that is held in an image data holding unit 18 and uses the extracted image data so as to compose images that correspond to the generated transmission data. The image formation program then displays the composed images onto a screen 12 of the game machine display testing apparatus that is emulating the game machine display, and extracts image data from the screen 12.

Abstract: A wiring pattern includes first halves, each of which is a first half of a corresponding one of one or more intervals into which the wiring pattern is divided, and second halves, each of which is a second half of a corresponding one of the one or more intervals, wherein an electromagnetic field generated by the first half is canceled by an electromagnetic field generated by the second half.

Abstract: An improved injection molding apparatus having a fixed mold 7 having a molten resin passage 16b and a movable second mold 8 having a molten resin passage 18 is presented in which residual hardened resin left in molten resin passages of the injection apparatus is removed automatically after every injection operation. The invented device is provided with a reciprocating member 34 which is coupled in molten resin passages 16b, 18, and during the injection step, the molten resin passage 16b is extended to the molten resin passage 18 by moving the reciprocating member 34 into the second mold to communicate a mold cavity 17 with a resin injection device 14. After the completion of the injection step, the reciprocating member 34 is moved to the back position to remove any resin left in the molten resin passage towards the first mold.

Abstract: There is provided a method for diagnosing an abnormal state of a sensor having a nonlinear output characteristic in which an output signal of a sensor changes nonlinearly. The method includes the steps of determining a first detection value which is indicated by the output signal of the sensor at a predetermined time, and determining a second detection value which is indicated by the output signal of the sensor obtained when a detection value indicated by the output signal has changed by a predetermined variation from the first detection value. The method also includes judging whether or not a deviation between the first detection value and the second detection value is out of a predetermined range, and determining that the sensor has an abnormal state when it is determined that the deviation is out of the predetermined range.

Abstract: A process for preparing 21-desoxyprednisolone 17-esters of formula (IV) is disclosed. ##STR1## The process comprises reacting a prednisolone 17.alpha.,21-cyclic orthoester with an acid in a 40-60% lower alcohol solution to produce a prednisolone 17-ester, sulfonylating the prednisolone 17-ester into a prednisolone 17-ester 21-sulfonate, and reacting the sulfonate with an alkali metal iodide in methyl ethyl ketone in the presence of a lower fatty acid to produce the compound of formula (IV). The process ensures economical industrial production of high purity 21-desoxyprednisolone 17-esters, an excellent local anti-inflammatory medicine, in a high yield by simple procedures.

Abstract: A throttle valve sensor having at least two switches for detecting different positions of a throttle valve. The setting of the switching conditions of the switches is such that these switches can not be made OFF simultaneously, over the entire range of the degree of opening of the throttle valve. A detachment of a connector connecting the sensor to a control circuit causes the corresponding port voltage level to be that obtained when all of the switches are made OFF, and as a result, a quick and positive detection of a detachment of the connector can be obtained.

Abstract: A heterojunction transistor has a first semiconductor layer of a semi-insulating or a low impurity concentration, a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and made of such a semiconductor material that, in cooperation with the first semiconductor layer, a first energy recess for electrons and a second energy recess for holes are respectively formed at the bottom of the conduction band and at the top of the valence band to constitute a conductive channel, a third semiconductor layer formed on the second semiconductor layer and forming a PN-junction with the upper surface of the second semiconductor layer to inject carriers into the conductive channel, a control electrode for applying an input signal to the third semiconductor layer, and a ground and an output electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer on the opposite sides of the third semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A rubber composition having improved weather resistance, thermal resistance, resistance to crack growth and wear resistance comprises not less than 20 parts by weight of a rubber compound mainly of ethylene, propylene and diene and satisfying all of particular requirements. Further, the rubber composition is applied to a tread and/or a sidewall of a pneumatic tire for improving a tire appearance.

Abstract: A cannula, such as commonly used for introduction of a catheter through the cannula into a body cavity, includes a plastic tube and an adaptor at one end of the tube. For easy removal of the cannula from around the catheter, the tube and adaptor are splittable along two or more longitudinal grooves or induction lines in the tube and adaptor. The induction lines are circumferentially spaced apart by an angle of 45.degree. to 180.degree.. Near the end of the tube opposite the adaptor, the induction lines in the tube are twisted, or extend circumferentially, providing increased stability of the induction lines to minimize premature splitting during manipulation of the cannula.