Abstract: A peripheral device has a mounting portion and a storage unit. The mounting portion is configured to mount a removable storage. The storage unit is configured to store data. The reading out unit reads out specific information from the removable storage medium when the removable storage medium is mounted to the mounting portion. The deletion unit deletes at least part of the data in the storage unit based on the specific information read out by the reading out unit.

Abstract: A duplicate setting prevention system for an image processing apparatus includes a setting file, a set of history information, a determination unit, a setting unit, a prohibiting unit, and a history information recording unit. The setting file is stored in a removable memory removably mounted on an image processing apparatus and is for setting the image processing apparatus. The set of history information is stored in the removable memory and indicates that the image processing apparatus has been set based on the setting file. When the removable memory is mounted on the image processing apparatus, the determination unit reads out the history information set and determines that a setting has been performed to the image processing apparatus based on the setting file. The setting unit performs the setting to the image processing apparatus based on the setting file.

Abstract: A shift lever device for operating a vehicle mounted transmission by pivoting operation of a shift lever about a predetermined axis is disclosed, and in this shift lever device, a housing is configured by a first housing member that is disposed on one side of the shift lever in a predetermined direction and a second housing member that assemblable to the first housing member along the predetermined direction from the side of the shift lever opposite to the side facing the first housing member with the shift lever therebetween, and the shift lever is axially supported inside the housing such that the shift lever is pivotable about an axis whose axial direction is the predetermined direction.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a pair of binoculars making it possible to easily perform a focusing operation and a diopter adjustment, and efficiently perform an assembling operation. The present invention provides a pair of binoculars having a pair of supporters for supporting adjustment lenses provided between a pair of ocular optical systems and a pair of objective optical systems so as to be capable of moving forward and backward along the optical axis, a focusing gear for performing a focusing operation by moving said pair of supporters forward or backward at the same time in the direction of optical axis, a diopter adjuster for performing a diopter adjustment by moving one supporter forward or backward in the direction of optical axis as keeping the other supporter stationary, and a focusing and diopter adjusting unit having a changeover gear for changing over the focusing gear and the diopter adjuster to each other.

Abstract: The compound represented by formula (I) (wherein ringA is cyclic group which may have a substituent(s), Q is alkyl which may have a substituent(s) or cyclic ring which may have a substituent(s), ringD is cyclic ring which may have a substituent(s), W is a single bond or a spacer of which main chain has an atom number of 1-4, Y is a spacer of which main chain has an atom number of 1-4.), a salt thereof, an N-oxide thereof or a solvate thereof, or a prodrug thereof Since the compounds represented by formula (I), a salt thereof, an N-oxide thereof or a solvate thereof, or a prodrug thereof have the affinity to MBR, they are useful for the prevention and/or treatment for disease caused by stress.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a silver powder which is an unprecedentedly fine particulate silver powder, has a dispersibility more approximate to monodispersibility resulting less aggregation, and has a low impurity content. To achieve the above object, a fine particulate silver powder having unprecedented powder properties in which: a. the average particle diameter DIA of the primary particles obtained by image analysis of a scanning electron micrograph is 0.6 ?m or less; b. the crystallite diameter is 10 nm or less; c. the sintering starting temperature is 240° C. or less; and d. the carbon content is 0.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I): [wherein R1 is (substituted) alkyl, alkoxy, phenyl, hetero ring etc.; A is bond, CO, SO2; R2 is H, (substituted) alkyl etc.; D is alkylene etc.; E is COO, OCO, O, S, SO, SO2 etc.; R3 is (substituted) alkyl, carbocyclic ring, hetero ring; J is O, NR16 (R16 is H, substituted alkyl); R4 is (substituted) alkyl, carbocyclic ring, hetero ring.] or non-toxic salt thereof, and an N-type calcium channel blocker comprising it as an active ingredient. The compounds of the formula (I) possess an inhibitory action on N-type calcium channel, so they are useful as agent for the prevention and/or treatment of cerebral infarct, transient ischemic attack, encephalomyelopathy after cardiac operation, spinal angiopathy, hypertension with stress, neurosis or epilepsy etc. or agent for the treatment of pain.

Abstract: A Rankine cycle system includes: an evaporator for heating water with thermal energy of exhaust gas of an engine so as to generate steam; an expander for converting the thermal energy of the steam generated by the evaporator into mechanical energy; and a distribution device for manipulating the amount of water supplied to the evaporator in order to make the temperature of the steam supplied from the evaporator to the expander coincide with a target temperature. The distribution device controls a distribution ratio between the amount of water supplied to the entrance of the evaporator and the amount of water supplied to a portion partway along the evaporator, thereby suppressing an overshoot in the temperature of the gas-phase working medium due to a sudden increase in the thermal energy of the exhaust gas.

Abstract: An evaporator control system includes water supply amount control means for controlling at a target temperature the temperature of steam generated by heating water supplied to an evaporator with thermal energy of exhaust gas of an engine, by manipulating the amount of water supplied. The water supply amount controller determines the amount of water supplied to the evaporator based on the sum of a feedforward water supply amount calculated from an amount of change in a parameter representing a load state of the engine, a first feedback water supply amount calculated from the actual temperature of the steam generated by the evaporator, and further a second feedback water supply amount calculated from a parameter representing an internal state of the evaporator such as an internal density of the evaporator.

Abstract: In a process of producing an aromatic compound isomer substituted with alkyl group(s) and/or halogen atom(s), through adsorptive separation by the use of a zeolite-containing adsorbent and a desorbent, the desorbent is, after having been processed for removing impurities from it, supplied to the adsorptive separation step. In the process, the absorbent used is prevented from being degraded, and its life is prolonged to efficiently separate an aromatic compound isomer mixture into individual isomers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound represented by formula (I) A—X—Y-Z-B??(I) (wherein A is a cyclic group which may have a substituent(s); X is a single bond or a spacer; Y is a single bond or a spacer; Z is a single bond or a spacer; B is a hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent(s) or a cyclic group which may have a substituent(s)), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof. The compound represented by formula (I), a salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof is useful for preventive and/or therapeutic agent for a disease caused by stress.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) having multiple layers of distributed network control functionality is used to facilitate development of complicated vehicle control network system. That is, for example, three layers of distributed network control functionality are devised in the ECU. The three layers of functionality include a so-called application layer that provides a structurally functional framework of function reusability, extensibility and independence as well as an interface (I/F) for functional context, a so-called system infrastructure layer that uniformly manages system resources for an entire system development scheme based on a rule, and a so-called hardware abstraction layer that controls hardware system as an abstractive object including electrical property of devices such as ECUs, sensors and/or actuators as well as a network itself.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing a display relating to at least one aspect of vehicle body action. The system includes at least one sensor, to sense information of a vehicle. Further, an estimating part is included to determine at least one aspect of vehicle body action based upon the sensed information. Finally, a display is located within the vehicle, to provide a visual display relating to at least one aspect of the determined vehicle body action.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing a pair of binoculars making it possible to easily perform a focusing operation and a diopter adjustment, and efficiently perform an assembling operation. The present invention provides a pair of binoculars having a pair of supporters for supporting adjustment lenses provided between a pair of ocular optical systems and a pair of objective optical systems so as to be capable of moving forward and backward along the optical axis, a focusing gear for performing a focusing operation by moving said pair of supporters forward or backward at the same time in the direction of optical axis, a diopter adjuster for performing a diopter adjustment by moving one supporter forward or backward in the direction of optical axis as keeping the other supporter stationary, and a focusing and diopter adjusting unit having a changeover gear for changing over the focusing gear and the diopter adjuster to each other.

Abstract: This invention is a silver powder having a low-temperature sintering performance and dispersibility, which allows the powder particles to be agglomerated to a small degree and be nearly in the monodisperse state. Employed is silver powder of fine silver particles each to which fine silver particles adhere, wherein fine silver particles of nano-order particle size are adhered to the surface of each silver powder particle. The powder particles of the silver powder of fine silver particles each to which fine silver particles adhere have excellent dispersibility.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof (all the symbols are the same meanings as described in the specification). The compounds of the formula (I) possess inhibitory activity of N-type calcium channel, so they are useful as drug for prevention and/or treatment of cerebral infarct, transient ischemic attack, encephalomyelopathy after cardiac operation, spinal angiopathy, hypertension with stress, neurosis, epilepsy, asthma and pollakiuria etc. or agent for the treatment of pain.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compound presented by formula (I) (wherein all symbols in formula (I) are the same mean as the description shown in the specification.), mitocondorial benzogeazepin receptor (MBR) antagonist comprising the compound, the preventive and/or treatment medicine against diseases caused by stress of which an active ingredient is the compound. Since the compound represented by formula (I) has MBR antagonistic activity, and controls the production of neurosteroid, it is useful as the preventive and/or treatment medicine against diseases caused by stress.

Abstract: The present invention is a Twist Up device that consists of multiple pin-movement sections and pin-stopping sections. The pin-movement sections have Twist Up adjustment grooves in multiple steps, and these adjustment grooves allow the Twist Up ring to move the Twist Up adjustment pins in the direction of the set grooves. The pin-stopping sections are positioned next to the pin-movement sections so that they can stop the Twist Up adjustment pins to prevent the Twist Up ring to move in the direction of the set grooves.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of diseases induced, exacerbated or reignited by stressors comprising the compound of formula (I) wherein all symbols have the same meanings as described in the specification, etc. as an active ingredient.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compounds of the formula (I) and salts thereof (all the symbols are the same meanings as described in the specification). The compounds of the formula (I) possess inhibitory activity of N-type calcium channel, so they are useful as drug for prevention and/or treatment of cerebral infarct, transient ischemic attack, encephalomyelopathy after cardiac operation, spinal angiopathy, hypertension with stress, neurosis, epilepsy, asthma and pollakiuria etc. or agent for the treatment of pain.