Abstract: A timer circuit is disclosed which includes a counter counting a clock signal, a register temporarily storing data, and a comparator comparing a count value of the counter with the data stored in the register and producing a signal when the count value of the counter reaches the value represented by the data stored in the register. Further provided in the timer circuit are detection circuit detecting the value of the data stored in the register and producing a detection signal when the register is written with data indicative of a value that is equal to an initial value of the counter and a circuit responding to the detection circuit to cause the register to change the value of the data stored therein to another value that is different from the initial value of the counter.

Abstract: A tertiary nitrogen atom-containing urethane polymer which comprises units of the following formulas (I) and (II) as the essential components and units of the following formulas (III), (IV) and (V) as the optional components, the content of the unit of the formula (I) being not less than 10 milliequivalents in terms of the tertiary nitrogen atom per kilogram of the urethane polymer, and has a molecular weight of not less than 500: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group and, when taken together with the adjacent nitrogen atom to which they are attached, represent a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group, R.sub.3 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, R.sub.4 is an optionally branched C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkylene group, m is a positive integer and n is zero or a positive integer but m+n is a number which can provide the unit of the formula (I) with a molecular weight of 131 to 6998 and the bondings in the unit of the formula (I) may be in random and/or block, R.sub.

Abstract: A polyurethane composition improved in dyeing property which comprises (A) a polyurethane and (B) a tertiary nitrogen atom-containing polymer incorporated therein in an amount sufficient to stabilize the polyurethane (A), said polymer (B) being the reaction product between (C) a tertiary nitrogen atom-containing diol and an excessive amount of (D) an organic diisocyanate, the terminal isocyanate group in said reaction product being blocked with a monoamine and/or a dialkylhydrazine.

Abstract: A shift register type memory having major and minor loops, wherein the number of bits of the major loop is large enough to permit data of at least two blocks to simultaneously exist in the major loop when one block is constituted of data of bits the number of which is equal to the number of the minor loops, and wherein before a particular block having been transferred out from the minor loops to the major loop is again transferred in to the minor loops after travelling round the major loop, the next block is transferred out from the minor loops to the major loop.