Abstract: An electrode material comprising a powdery mixture of a metal material (particularly, an intermetallic compound) and a capacitive carbon material each capable of doping and dedoping lithium, and an optionally added fine electroconductive additive, and containing the metal material and the capacitive carbon material in amounts of 5-60 wt. % and 40-95 wt. %, respectively, is used as an active substance for an electrode, particularly a negative electrode, of a non-aqueous solvent secondary cell. As a result, there is provided a non-aqueous solvent secondary cell which has large charge-discharge capacities, a small irreversible capacity determined as a difference between the doping capacity and the de-doping capacity, and also excellent cycle characteristics.

Abstract: A carbonaceous electrode having improved capacities for doping and dedoping of a cell active substance, such as lithium, and suitable for a non-aqueous secondary battery, is constituted by a carbonaceous material obtained by carbonizing an aromatic condensation polymer formed by condensation of an aromatic compound having a phenolic hydroxy group and an aldehyde. The carbonaceous material is characterized by an atomic ratio H/C between hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms of below 0.1, a carbon dioxide adsorption capacity of at least 10 ml/g, and an X-ray scattering intensity ratio IW/ID of at least 0.25, wherein IW and ID represent scattering intensities as measured in a wet state and a dry state, respectively, at a parameter s=2·sin &thgr;/&lgr; of 0.5 nm−1, wherein &thgr; denotes a scattering angle and &lgr; denotes a wavelength of X-rays in X-ray small-angle scattering measurement.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide an agent that is clinically effective in the treatment or prevention of reperfusion injury. The agent for use in the treatment or prevention of reperfusion injury according to the present invention comprises an integrin &agr;v&bgr;3 antagonist, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a solvate thereof as active ingredient.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide compounds having integrin &agr;v&bgr;3 antagonistic activity, GP IIb/IIIa antagonistic activity, and/or human platelet aggregation inhibitory activity, and therapeutic agents for treating integrin &agr;v&bgr;3-mediated diseases and for inhibiting platelet aggregation. The derivatives according to the present invention are compounds represented by formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof: wherein A represents a five- to seven-membered heterocyclic ring containing two nitrogen atoms or the like; X and Z represent CH or a nitrogen atom; R4 and R5 represent alkyl, halogen or the like; Q represents >C=O, >CH2 or the like; R6 represents H, alkyl, aralkyl or the like; R7 represents H, alkynyl or the like; R8 represents H, substituted amino or the like; R9 represents H or alkyl; m is 0 to 5; n is 0 to 4; p is 2 or 3; and q is 0 or 1.

Abstract: An objective of the present invention is to provide compounds having integrin &agr;v&bgr;3 antagonistic activity, cell adhesion inhibitory activity, GP IIb/IIIa antagonistic activity, and/or human platelet aggregation inhibitory activity, and, therapeutic agents for treating cardiovascular diseases, angiogenesis-related diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and the like and for inhibiting platelet aggregation.

Abstract: A carbonaceous electrode having improved capacities for doping and dedoping of a cell active substance, such as lithium, and suitable for a non-aqueous solvent-type secondary battery, is constituted by a carbonaceous material obtained by carbonizing an aromatic condensation polymer formed by condensation of an aromatic compound having a phenolic hydroxy group and an aldehyde. The carbonaceous material is characterized by an atomic ratio H/C between hydrogen atoms and carbon atoms of below 0.1, a carbon dioxide adsorption capacity of at least 10 ml/g, and an X-ray scattering intensity ratio IW/ID of at least 0.25, wherein IW and ID represent scattering intensities as measured in a wet state and a dry state, respectively, at a parameter s=2·sin &thgr;/&lgr; of 0.5 nm−1, wherein &thgr; denotes a scattering angle and &lgr; denotes a wavelength of X-rays in X-ray small-angle scattering measurement.

Abstract: A carbonaceous electrode having improved capacities for doping and dedoping of a cell active substance, such as lithium, and suitable for a non-aqueous solvent secondary battery, is constituted by a carbonaceous material having a true density as measured by a butanol substitution method of at most 1.46 g/cm3, a true density as measured by a helium substitution method of at least 1.7 g/cm3, a hydrogen-to-carbon atomic ratio H/C of at most 0.15 as measured according to elementary analysis, a BET specific surface area of at most 50 m2/g as measured by nitrogen adsorption BET method, and a carbon dioxide adsorption capacity of at least 10 ml/g. The carbonaceous material is advantageously produced by carbonizing an organic material originated from bamboo genera of family Gramineae, particularly genus Pleioblastus or Bambusa, at 1000-1400° C. under a reduced pressure or under a flowing inert gas stream to provide an appropriate porous structure.

Abstract: A carbonaceous electrode having improved capacities for doping and dedoping of a cell active substance, such as lithium, and suitable for a non-aqueous solvent-type secondary battery, is constituted by a carbonaceous material having a specific microtexture. The carbonaceous material is characterized by it's ability to provide an electrochemically lithium-doped product showing a main resonance peak which is shifted by 80-200 ppm to a lower magnetic field side from a resonance line of LiCl as a reference substance when subjected to .sup.7 Li-NMR spectroscopy analysis.

Abstract: A drive circuit of an electromagnetic contactor including a series circuit of a surge absorber and a diode connected in parallel with the coil of the contactor, and a transistor connected in parallel with the surge absorber. There are two operation modes. In a first operation mode, the contactor is opened immediately after the contactor has been closed by a starting pulse. In a second operation mode, the contactor is opened after the contactor has been closed by a starting pulse and held by holding pulses following the starting pulse. In the first operation mode, the transistor is kept in an on state for a delay time after starting the contactor. This prevents the current due to counter electromagnetic force of the coil from flowing through the surge absorber before the current is reduced below the allowable level of the surge absorber by the transistor. This makes it possible to protect the surge absorber from being overheated.

Abstract: A DC electromagnet apparatus that can prevent an excessive making coil current caused by changes in a power supply voltage. The electromagnet has an operation coil, a switching device, and a current detecting resistor connected in series. A one-shot pulse generating circuit produces a one-shot pulse having a pulse width corresponding to the duration of the making coil current flowing through the operation coil to close the electromagnet. A Miller circuit generates, based on the one-shot pulse, a trapezoidal pulse having a predetermined rising rate, a predetermined peak value, and a pulse width substantially equal to that of the one-shot pulse. A comparator produces an ON control signal that controls the switching device in such a manner that the making coil current becomes proportional to the trapezoidal pulse.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for multi-window display with enhanced window manipulation facilities. In the apparatus, window images to be displayed in multi-window display are stored in a bit map memory. Various image processing operations are performed on the window images stored in the bit map memory, by regarding the window images as graphic images. Appropriate sections of processed window images are transferred to a frame buffer by using a bit block transfer device, and the image in the frame buffer is displayed on a display device.

Abstract: A novel photographic silver halide emulsion is disclosed, which is useful in a color photographic silver halide material to provide improvements in image quality, storage stability and pressure resistance. The photographic silver halide emulsion comprises silver halide twinned crystal grains each having a ratio of grain diameter to grain thickness of 5 or less which amount to 50% or more by projection area of total grains, wherein X-ray diffraction pattern of the twinned crystal grains with Cu-K.alpha. ray as a radiation source has a (420) diffraction signal having a single peak; and the width of the peak at a height of 0.13 times the maximum peak height, based on the signal intensity, is 1.5 degree or less in a diffraction angle, 2.theta..

Abstract: An improved drop/insert multiplexer for use in a channel access unit that uses common channel slots for data channels in first and second directions, and uses less wiring between a multiplexer/de-multiplexer section and a channel section. The drop/insert multiplexer has at the receive side thereof, a time slot phase difference setting stage for providing a predetermined phase difference between received timing signals as well as receive data from the first and second directions; a receive channel pulse generating stage generates multiplexed channels pulses; a receive channel pulse decoding stage and a PCM decoder reproduces a voice signal by receiving selected received data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus providing color images excellent in both color reproduction and in density and sharpness of line images of characters or the like. The inventive image forming apparatus includes both a color image forming unit, which forms a latent image on a photosensitive material by the utilization of a chemical reaction, and a monochromatic electrophotographic unit. The color photosensitive material used in the color image forming unit may be a silver halide photosensitive material, a photosensitive resin material, or a photosensitive/pressure-sensitive material.

Abstract: There is disclosed a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material, having two or more light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers different in color sensitivities on a support, at least one of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprises monodispersed silver halide grains containing 8 to 30 mole % of silver halide in core or contains twinned crystal silver halide grains, at least two of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers different in color sensitivities containing a DIR compound capable of releasing a developing inhibitor or developing inhibitor precursor through the reaction with the oxidized product of a developing agent, the developing inhibitor or developing inhibitor precursor released from the DIR compound being diffusive, wherein the following conditions A:DIR compounds are added and incorporated in the emulsion layers so that the developing inhibitor released from the DIR compound incorporated in one color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the developing

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having a layer containing an electrically conductive material formed on one surface of a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer formed on the other surface of the support is disclosed, wherein the outermost layer on the side where the silver halide emulsion layer is formed contains an organopolysiloxane and a nonionic surfactant having a polyoxyethylene unit, the latter being optionally combined with, or replaced by, a fluorine-containing compound.

Abstract: A method for forming color photographic images is disclosed. The method comprises steps ofimagewise exposing to light a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materialdeveloping the light-sensitive material with a color developer,bleaching, immediately after the step of developing, the light-sensitive material with a bleacing solution, andtreating the bleached light-sensitive material with a solution having fixing capablility, whereinthe light-sensitive material comprises a support and hydrophilic colloid layers including a silver halide emulsion layer provided on a side of the support, and a total dry thickness of the hydrophilic colloid layers is not more than 17 .mu.m, andthe bleaching solution contains a ferric complex salt of a compound represented by the following formula in an amount of within the range of from 0.002 mole to 9.4 mole per liter of the bleaching solution; ##STR1## wherein A.sub.1, through A.sub.4 are each a --CH.sub.2 OH group, a --COOM, or a --PO.sub.3 M.sup.1 M.sup.2.

Abstract: A method of disposing of the leading end of a roll of photosensitive medium in which a leading end portion of the photosensitive medium that gets fogged due to exposure to light is cut and discharged from the processing route of the photosensitive medium before the development process; a first sheet of the photosensitive medium is cut in a predetermined size, including a leading end portion that gets fogged due to exposure to light, the part of this sheet which has not become fogged being exposed to a test pattern; or a first sheet of the photosensitive medium is cut in a size determined by summing the size of a leading end portion that gets fogged due to exposure to light and the size of a predetermined area of exposure.

Abstract: A channel access system comprises n channel parts for receiving m channels of voice signals and for outputting voice frequency data and signaling data, and a multiplexer part for receiving the voice frequency data and the signaling data of the m channel from the n channel parts and for supplying channel access signals to the n channel parts for designating a channel of the voice frequency data, where each of the n channel parts include a coder for coding a corresponding one of the voice signals into one of the voice frequency data, a decoder for decoding the channel access signals and for generating a synchronizing signal which is synchronized to a corresponding one of the channel access signals which designates its own channel, a signaling converter for converting the corresponding one of the signaling signals into a corresponding one of the signaling data, and a speed converting circuit for converting a transmission speed of the signaling data from a first transmission speed to a second transmission speed w

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a blue light-sensitive layer-unit, a green light-sensitive layer-unit and a red light-sensitive layer-unit in which at least one of the light-sensitive layer-units comprises two or three silver halide emulsion layers being substantially the same in spectral sensitivity and different in speed from each other.