Abstract: The present invention provides 4-amino-azepan-3-one protease inhibitors and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates and solvates thereof which inhibit proteases, including cathepsin K, pharmaceutical compositions of such compounds, novel intermediates of such compounds, and methods for treating diseases of excessive bone loss or cartilage or matrix degradation, including osteoporosis; gingival disease including gingivitis and periodontitis; arthritis, more specifically, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis; Paget's disease; hypercalcemia of malignancy; and metabolic bone disease, comprising inhibiting said bone loss or excessive cartilage or matrix degradation by administering to a patient in need thereof a compound of the present invention.

Abstract: A client acquires the size of the moving picture, decides a segment of a moving picture to be extracted from the original moving picture and extracts the moving picture of the segment decided. The client uploads, to a server on a network, the moving picture extracted from a moving picture file.

Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a main microcomputer and a sub-microcomputer. Both the microcomputers include buffers for initialization and buffers for normal processing. At the time of startup of the main microcomputer and the sub-microcomputer, the sub-microcomputer reads out a correction value from a memory, stores the correction value in its buffers for initialization, and also transmits the correction value to the main microcomputer, which stores the correction value in its buffers for initialization.

Abstract: A light emitting unit includes at least one electrode member having high thermal conductivity and low resistance, and one or more flip-chip-type light emitting device of which an anode electrode side or a cathode electrode side is connected to the electrode member, and wherein the electrode member extends in a longitudinal direction thereof, and heat generated in the light emitting device is to be released along the longitudinal direction of the electrode member.

Abstract: A monosulfonium salt in which very little unreacted raw material remains, which has a purity of at least 96%, and which has one sulfonio group in its molecule is manufactured without a refining step. After (a) an aryl compound, (b) a sulfoxide compound, (c) a dehydrating agent, and (d) a BF4, PF6, AsF6, or SbF6 salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal are introduced into a reaction system, (e) an inorganic acid is added, so that the aryl compound (a) and the sulfoxide compound (b) are subjected to dehydration condensation.

Abstract: A method is disclosed to regulate a swelling rate of bread by which materials obtained by adjusting a crush degree of seed of the cereal are used for a part of the bread.

Abstract: A housing 20 is equipped for supporting, from a side, a platform of a wavelength selection device comprising an input/output port 10, a collimator 11, an expanding optical system 12, a spectroscopic element, a collecting optical system 14 and a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) mirror array 15. Because the above noted optical member is supported from the side only, influences of a thermal expansion is limited to the height direction of the optical member and the optical axis direction. By these aspects, the influence of thermal expansion is limited to a two-dimensional from a common three-dimensional, thereby enabling a design of a countermeasure to an influence of a thermal expansion. Also, the support from the side does not create a dead space thereby making the wavelength selection device compact.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a first light-emitting element to generate an illumination light with a first light emission intensity to be applied to a subject, and a second light-emitting element to generate an illumination light with a second light emission intensity, including at least light with a wavelength different from the illumination light generated from the first light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element and second light-emitting element are arranged, so that the peaks of the first emission intensity and second emission intensity become identical.

Abstract: A wavelength selective optical switch of the present invention separates a WDM light emitted from an input port of an input and output optical system, according to wavelengths, by a diffraction grating, and thereafter, condenses the lights of respective wavelengths on MEMS mirrors respectively corresponding to the respective wavelengths, in a mirror array, to reflect them by a condenser optical system, to thereby switch optical paths for the respective lights. The condenser optical system is configured by combining a plurality of lenses whose focal distances are different from each other, and positions in an optical axis direction of the lenses are adjustable by a slide mechanism. Thus, despite an error in the focal distances of the condenser lenses, in a mounting angle of a spectral element or the like, a beam pitch at the condensing positions of the lights of respective wavelengths can be coincident with a mirror pitch in the mirror array.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of source lines formed so as to be substantially orthogonal to the gate lines; pixel electrodes formed in a matrix form at each intersecting part of the gate line and the source line; and a TFT, including a gate electrode connected to the gate line, a source electrode connected to the source line, and a drain electrode connected to the pixel electrode, formed in accordance with each pixel electrode. The TFT according to the present invention includes a hole in at least one of either the gate electrode or the drain electrode at a position where the gate electrode and the drain electrode overlap in plan view.

Abstract: In a WDM transmission system, a wavelength selecting switch demultiplexes a first WDM light containing a plurality of wavelength components into a plurality of single wavelength lights each containing corresponding one of the wavelength components, effects multiplexing on the plurality of single wavelength lights to form a second WDM light, and effects demultiplexing on the outputted second WDM light. A wavelength demultiplexing unit demultiplexes the demultiplexed second WDM light into a plurality of wavelength demultiplexed lights for every wavelength component so that physical quantity monitoring can be made on each wavelength demultiplexed light deriving from the demultiplexing.

Abstract: When receiving an order of processing data received through a network and held, an operation of inputting an order information by a third party other than an owner is simple by reusing the order information by the owner of the data. Since the owner can set whether or not to allow the third party reusing the order information or whether or not to allow the third party editing the order information, it is possible to reflect requests from the owner.

Abstract: A power management device comprises a start management control unit having a starter hold control function for actuating a starter motor and holding the actuation based on an operating signal from a button switch, a first terminating unit for terminating cranking hold when receiving a starter stop instruction signal sent from an engine control device when it is determined that an engine reached a complete explosion, a second terminating unit for terminating cranking hold when it is determined that the engine reached a complete explosion based on an engine revolution signal sent from the engine control device, and a forced terminating unit for forcefully terminating cranking hold when cranking hold cannot be terminated by those terminating units.

Abstract: An optical switch system has a plurality of micro mirrors arranged in a plane, and an angle of each of the micro mirrors can be controlled for reflecting an optical signal entered from one or more input ports so that the reflected optical signal enters a selected output port of one or more output ports. The optical switch system includes a storage portion for storing connection information between the input port and the output port, a correction quantity obtaining portion for obtaining a correction quantity for a cross talk generated between neighboring micro mirrors among the plurality of micro mirrors, a computing portion for determining a controlling quantity of the micro mirror in accordance with the connection information and the correction quantity, and a drive output portion for driving the micro mirror in accordance with the controlling quantity.

Abstract: To obtain a polymerization initiator (acid generating agent) having excellent power for initiation of cationic polymerization without containing arsenic or antimony. [Means for solution] Provided is a specific onium salt or transition metal complex salt of a fluorinated alkyl fluorophosphoric acid.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical switch for restricting a reduction in an optical coupling efficiency to an output optical path, which comprises a first spectral unit, a second spectral unit for further spectrally diffracting a plurality of wavelength components spectrally diffracted in the first spectral unit, a plurality of movable mirrors capable of reflecting the plurality of wavelength components spectrally diffracted in the second spectral unit respectively and directing the same in different directions, and a controller for compensating for deviation angles relative to optical axes of the plurality of wavelength components spectrally diffracted in the second spectral unit through setting of angles of reflecting faces in the plurality of movable mirrors.

Abstract: Provided is an enteric-coated preparation comprising an enteric coating material capable of delivering a drug to a site within the small intestine in a site-specific manner. More specifically, provided is an enteric-coated preparation for delivering a drug to a site within the small intestine in a site-specific manner, comprising a drug-containing preparation and an enteric coating material which covers the preparation, wherein, in Dissolution Test as specified in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia Fourteenth Edition, no dissolution of the drug is observed in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia first fluid (pH 1.2) while dissolution of the drug is observed in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia second liquid (pH 6.8) 20 minutes or later from start of the Dissolution Test. The enteric coating material is preferably selected from the group consisting of hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose acetate succinate, hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose phthalate, methacrylic acid copolymer and carboxymethylethyl cellulose.

Abstract: A charging control apparatus is adapted to control an alternator which is operable to generate a voltage to charge a battery which is operable to supply the voltage to an electric component. An interface is connected to the alternator, the battery, and the electric component and operable to input and output a signal therebetween. A microcomputer is connected to the inter face and operable to execute a gradual change process in which a generating voltage of the alternator is gradually changed to a target generating voltage of the alternator and a sudden change process in which the generating voltage is suddenly changed to the target generating voltage. The microcomputer is operable to detect a using status of the electric component based on the signal. The microcomputer is operable to judge whether the gradual change process is required or the sudden change process is required based on the detected using status.

Abstract: A system for supervising a battery that supplies power to an electrical unit includes a control part that is supplied with power from the battery and executes a predetermined process when abnormal discharge of the battery occurs; an activation part that detects current consumed in the battery when the electrical unit and the control part are in a sleep mode and activates the control part when the activation part detects abnormal discharge that occurs when an amount of the current consumed in the battery exceeds a given threshold value.

Abstract: A housing 20 is equipped for supporting, from a side, a platform of a wavelength selection device comprising an input/output port 10, a collimator 11, an expanding optical system 12, a spectroscopic element, a collecting optical system 14 and a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) mirror array 15. Because the above noted optical member is supported from the side only, influences of a thermal expansion is limited to the height direction of the optical member and the optical axis direction. By these aspects, the influence of thermal expansion is limited to a two-dimensional from a common three-dimensional, thereby enabling a design of a countermeasure to an influence of a thermal expansion. Also, the support from the side does not create a dead space thereby making the wavelength selection device compact.