Abstract: A node resource within its own area is allocated to a service in accordance with a quality of service to be provided, a node resource lent out to adifferent network area is cancelled to allocate the lent out node resource to the service when there is a shortage of node resource, and further a node resource is borrowed from a different network area to allocate the borrowed node resource to the service when there still is a shortage of node resource.

Abstract: A subject of the present invention is to provide a novel aromatic five- or six-memberd heterocyclic derivative having 4-pyridylalkylthio as a substituent or a salt thereof which is useful as a pharmaceutical. Compound represented by the following general formula [I] or salts thereof are useful as therapeutic agents for diseases in which angiogenesis or augmentation of vascular permeability is involved. In the formula, ring “A” is a benzene ring or an aromatic five- or six-memberd heterocycle which can be fused with a cycloalkane ring, “B” is alkylene, R1 and R2, the same or different, are H, OH, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy and the like, X and Y, the same or different, are group(s) selected from H, halogen, OH, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy and the like respectively, p is 0, 1 or 2, and q is 0 or 1.

Abstract: A node resource within its own area is allocated to a service in accordance with a quality of service to be provided, a node resource lent out to a different network area is cancelled to allocate the lent out node resource to the service when there is a shortage of node resource, and further a node resource is borrowed from a different network area to allocate the borrowed node resource to the service when there still is a shortage of node resource.

Abstract: Print sheets 7 stacked up are inserted into a package member 8 so that the sheets 7 in this state can be set in a printer together with the package member 8. The package member 8 is provided with an identification mark 31 while the printer is equipped with a reflective sensor so that the identification mark 31 will be placed in a reading area of the reflective sensor only when the sheet package 9 is loaded in the printer in a correct direction.

Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a mechanism for preventing a liquid from splashing from a liquid tank, and a component mounting apparatus with this liquid splashing prevention mechanism. The liquid splash prevention mechanism has a first seal member with a circumferential outer face attached to a first driving lever in a lubricating oil tank, and a second seal member with an arc face set in the lubricating oil tank correspondingly to the first seal member so that a sealing gap for preventing lubricating oil from scattering is formed between the first seal member and the second seal member. Moreover, the lubricating oil is filled in the sealing gap. Scattering of the lubricating oil is more surely prevented by this arrangement. Quality degradation to be caused by adhesion of the lubricating oil to printed boards and the like can be prevented, and productivity can be improved.

Abstract: A robot control apparatus with great safety is provided by detecting access of a teacher to a robot and automatically reducing the operating speed of the robot when the teacher accesses the robot. The robot control device equipped with a pendant (10) to be manipulated by a teacher, for controlling the operation of a robot on the basis of an operation command from the pendant (10), includes a detecting device (8) for detecting the position of the teacher; a signal processing unit (11) for receiving a signal from the detecting device to produce the position information of the teacher; and a limited speed selecting unit (12) for selecting the operating speed of the robot on the basis of the position information. The robot is controlled at the maximum speed set at the operating speed selected by the limited speed selecting unit (12) on the basis of the operation command from the pendant (10).

Abstract: A biodegradable resin composition comprising polylactic acid and nanosheeted layered titanic acid characterized in that the nonasheeted layered titanic acid is nanosheeted layered titanic acid obtained by a preparing process comprising the steps of: (1) treating layered titanate represented by the general formula: AxMy?zTi2?(y+z)O4??(1) [wherein A and M represent a different monovalent to trivalent metal, ? represents a part defective in Ti, x is a positive real number satisfying 0<x<1.0, and y and z are 0 or a positive real number satisfying 0<y+z<1.0, respectively]with an acid or warm water to replace an A ion and/or a M ion with hydrogen and/or a hydronium ion, and (2) reacting the resulting compound with a basic compound having interlayer swelling activity thereon, to swell or peel between layers.

Abstract: A sheet package (9) to be set in a sheet storage unit (6, 106) of a printer (1) for supplying the printer with sheets comprises a stack of sheets (7) and a package member (8) covering the stack of sheets. When the sheet package (9) is set in the printer (1), the sheets (7) are supplied from the sheet package (9) to the printer (1) along a sheet feed direction. The package member (8) has a side part (53) spreading in parallel with the sheet feed direction and having an edge at its front in the sheet feed direction. On a side wall of the sheet storage unit (6, 106), a pressing member (41) for pressing a side face of the stack of sheets (7) is formed in order to align the stack of sheets (7) in a direction orthogonal to the sheet feed direction. The side part (53) places the package member at a proper position in the sheet storage unit (6, 106) in regard to the sheet feed direction by letting the edge make contact with the pressing member (41).

Abstract: A substantial apparatus width along a board carrying direction of an electronic component placing apparatus for placing electronic components on a board having a length L along the board carrying direction is a total dimension 4L+SL. Specifically, 4L denotes a length of the sum of the lengths of a first board retreat position, a first component placement position, a second board retreat position and a second component placement position. Further, SL denotes a length of the sum of the lengths of the spaces for positioning a board stop mechanism provided at each of the first board retreat position, the first component placement position, the second board retreat position and the second component placement position. Finally, the substantial apparatus width is between 450 mm and 1000 mm inclusively.

Abstract: A data processing system which allows a client to request or release multiple computing resources with a single action. A grouping unit defines groups of resources, and those groups are maintained by a group manager. When a request is received from a client demanding a specific group of resources, a detection unit finds such a member resource of the requested group that is currently used by any other client. If the detection unit has found a member resource in use, then a determination unit determines whether the detected member resource is to be modified. A permission unit permits the requesting client to make access to the requested group of resources if the detection unit finds that none of the member resources of the requested group are being used by any other client, or if the determination unit finds that neither the current user nor the requesting client intends to modify the detected member resource in use.

Abstract: A discharge lamp operation apparatus includes an AC power supply (10), a voltage converting circuit (11), an inverter circuit (13), a load circuit (15), a controller (1), and a pulse voltage superimposing section (3). The pulse voltage superimposing section (3) controls the switching elements (Q3, Q4) of the inverter circuit (13) to superimpose a pulse voltage to the voltage applied across the discharge lamp (LA). The period until the discharge lamp (LA) is lighted is divided into a preheating period to preheat the discharge lamp and a startup period to start the discharge lamp. During the startup period, the controller (1) raises gradually the output voltage (Vdc) of the voltage converting circuit (11), and the voltage superimposing section (3) superimposes the pulse voltage on the voltage applied across the discharge lamp (LA).

Abstract: A sheet package 9 in accordance with the present invention includes sheets 7 as print mediums for a printer and a package member 8 surrounding the sheets 7 which have been stacked up. The sheet package 9 is configured so that the sheets 7 can be set in the printer together with the package member 8 exposing part of the sheets 7. The package member 8 is integrally provided with a flap part 44 which can expose part of the sheets 7 by being opened when the sheet package 9 is set in the printer and cover the exposed part of the sheets 7 by being closed when the sheet package 9 is not used.

Abstract: A printer 1 includes a sheet storage unit 6 in which a stack of sheets can be set, a pickup roller 12 which contacts one side of the stack of sheets set in the sheet storage unit 6, and a lid 10 which covers the other side of the stack of sheets. In this structure, each sheet 7 is conveyed toward a print mechanism unit 14 by the revolution of the pickup roller 12. The printer 1 is provided with first ribs 10a and a second rib 3a which forcibly curl the sheets 7 set in the sheet storage unit 6 in the sheet width direction.

Abstract: In a server which receives a request of processing from a client, and returns a processing result of the request to the client, a result storing unit stores at least one processing result of at least one request. When a determination unit determines that no other request which is identical to a request received from a client has been processed, an execution unit executes processing of the request received from the client, and stores a result of the processing in the result storing unit. When the determination unit determines that another request which is identical to a request received from a client has already been processed, a transmission unit transmits to the client one of the at least one processing result corresponding to the request received from the client.

Abstract: A substantial apparatus width along a board carrying direction of an electronic component placing apparatus for placing electronic components on a board having a length L along the board carrying direction is a total dimension 4L+SL. Specifically, 4L denotes a length of the sum of the lengths of a first board retreat position, a first component placement position, a second board retreat position and a second component placement position. Further, SL denotes a length of the sum of the lengths of the spaces for positioning a board stop mechanism provided at each of the first board retreat position, the first component placement position, the second board retreat position and the second component placement position. Finally, the substantial apparatus width is between 450 mm and 1000 mm inclusively.

Abstract: An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce CCD noise which emerges in an image imported from a digital camera is provided.

Abstract: An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce both block noise and mosquito noise without deterioration of the image quality is provided. The method includes creating a first luminance component image data with the boundaries of the blocks thereof smoothened, creating a second luminance component image data with its entirety smoothened from the first luminance component image data, creating edge image data by subtracting the second luminance component image data from the first luminance component image data, creating corrected edge image data by applying correction to the edge image data under given conditions, and creating third luminance component image data by adding the corrected edge image data to the second luminance component image data. For color-difference component image data, first color-difference component image data with its entirety smoothened is created from the color-difference component image data.

Abstract: A grating forming method for forming a fine grating with a grating period of 1 ?m or less on a surface of a blank material including cutting the surface of the blank material with a blade tip part of a diamond cutting tool. When the fine grating with the grating period of “P” ?m is formed and the feed speed of the diamond cutting tool is set to be “F” mm/min, the feed speed “F” is set to satisfy the conditional expression: F<1 0 0 P3. The vibration amplitude of the diamond cutting tool in a perpendicular direction to the surface of the blank material is set to be “A” ?m, the vibration amplitude “A” is set to satisfy the following conditional expression: A<0. 0 1 8 P2. The feed amount per revolution of the diamond cutting tool is set to be “S” ?m, the feed amount per revolution “S” is set to satisfy the following conditional expression: S<2. 9 P3. These conditional expressions are applied to a blank material, a molding die, a molded product, and a master member for manufacturing a molding die.

Abstract: A discharge lamp operation apparatus includes an AC power supply (10), a voltage converting circuit (11), an inverter circuit (13), a load circuit (15), a controller (1), and a pulse voltage superimposing section (3). The pulse voltage superimposing section (3) controls the switching elements (Q3, Q4) of the inverter circuit (13) to superimpose a pulse voltage to the voltage applied across the discharge lamp (LA). The period until the discharge lamp (LA) is lighted is divided into a preheating period to preheat the discharge lamp and a startup period to start the discharge lamp. During the startup period, the controller (1) raises gradually the output voltage (Vdc) of the voltage converting circuit (11), and the voltage superimposing section (3) superimposes the pulse voltage on the voltage applied across the discharge lamp (LA).