Abstract: It provides an inverter main circuit converting a DC-voltage into three-phase AC-voltages, a DC-current detection unit detecting the DC-current value of a DC-current flowing in the main circuit, and an inverter control unit generating a drive signal for controlling operation of the main circuit using a voltage command value corresponding to each phase of the three-phase AC-voltages and a triangular-wave carrier. Using a time period during which the triangular-wave carrier monotonically increases or decreases as a unit period, the control unit provides control to alternately use, as the DC-current value for use in computation of the voltage command value, the DC-current value detected in the unit period in which the triangular-wave carrier monotonically increases and the DC-current value detected in the unit period in which the triangular-wave carrier monotonically decreases, for every voltage command value control period set to three times or more and an integer multiple of the unit period.

Abstract: It provides an inverter main circuit converting a DC-voltage into three-phase AC-voltages, a DC-current detection unit detecting the DC-current value of a DC-current flowing in the main circuit, and an inverter control unit generating a drive signal for controlling operation of the main circuit using a voltage command value corresponding to each phase of the three-phase AC-voltages and a triangular-wave carrier. Using a time period during which the triangular-wave carrier monotonically increases or decreases as a unit period, the control unit provides control to alternately use, as the DC-current value for use in computation of the voltage command value, the DC-current value detected in the unit period in which the triangular-wave carrier monotonically increases and the DC-current value detected in the unit period in which the triangular-wave carrier monotonically decreases, for every voltage command value control period set to three times or more and an integer multiple of the unit period.

Abstract: A method and a device with which an ambulatory status, including movements of an upper body, can be detected easily, without a complex operation of the equipment used, in a medical facility for rehabilitation or the like. In case of detecting the ambulatory status of a subject, the problem is solved by detecting the ambulatory status of the subject by measuring conditions of movement in at least two places, specifically, a lumber area and a thoracodorsal area of the subject.

Abstract: A method and a device with which an ambulatory status, including movements of an upper body, can be detected easily, without a complex operation of the equipment used, in a medical facility for rehabilitation or the like.

Abstract: This invention relates to hydroxylated derivatives of vitamin D.sub.2 and a process for preparing such compounds. In particular, a process for preparing the 24-epimer of vitamin D.sub.2 and the corresponding 1.alpha.-hydroxylated derivative thereof is disclosed. The vitamin D.sub.2 derivatives would find application in the treatment of or prophylaxsis for various disease states characterized by calcium and phosphorous imbalances.